State v. . Gragg
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for murder tried before Hoke, J., and a jury at June, 1897, Special Term of Caldwell Superior Court. The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and appealed. The facts are stated fully in the opinion of Furches, J., and in the dissenting opinion of Clark, J.
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, J.:
The evidence tends to establish a horrible murder. This was hardly disputed, though there was evidence offered to show that the deceased Moore had been in possession of dynamite, which he had sometimes used. The evidence tends to show that the deceased Moore and Bowman went to sleep in this world and woke up in eternity; and the question for the jury was one of identity.
There are exceptions to evidence but they cannot be sustained, and the ruling of the court upon defendant’s exceptions as to evidence are based upon principles so often sustained by this court that we cannot think…
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