State v. Thomas

Tbe defendant shot and billed tbe deceased in Bergerberg, a suburb of Kannapolis, between 8 and 9 o’clock on tbe nigbt of 25 October, 1921. About 8 o’clock tbe defendant, according to bis statement, accompanied by Mrs. Robert Lowe, left tbe Cline boarding-bouse at Kannapolis in a Buick car, intending to go to tbe borne of Oscar Overcasb, wbo lived near tbe scene of tbe homicide. After getting into tbe car be laid bis pistol in Mrs. Lowe’s lap. About tbe same time tbe deceased, traveling in a Ford sedan, carried a woman named Carrie Kimball through a part of tbe town not far from Over'casb’s…