State v. . Lawrence

Did the defendant throw Annie Terry from the bridge at Avent’s Ferry on the night of 24 March, 1928, at about 10:30 or 11 o’clock?

Avent’s Ferry Bridge is on a public road. Several other public roads run into the road leading to the bridge. The bridge is neither a secluded nor a desolate place, but one much used by the public generally. While' the defendant and his brothers and sisters owned as tenants in common the land of their deceased father, there is no evidence in the record that any living person had seen the defendant upon the land or traveling this particular road in twenty years.

The…