State v. . Jones
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CRIMINAL action for murder, tried before Moore, J., and a jury, at December Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of Gtuilrord County. The defendant was indicted for and convicted of killing bis wife, Lula Jones.
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CRIMINAL action for murder, tried before Moore, J., and a jury, at December Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of Gtuilrord County. The defendant was indicted for and convicted of killing bis wife, Lula Jones. The exceptions were mainly directed to tbe evidence and the charge of the Court upon the question whether the killing was done with deliberation and premeditation, so as to constitute murder in the first degree, and to the instruction as to murder in the second degree. . There was no evidence of manslaughter or excusable homicide. The testimony relating to the killing was as follows:…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker,, J.,
after stating tbe case: T'be charge of the Court to which exception has been taken by the defendant conforms to the rule of law which we have repeatedly laid down as applicable to cases of this kind. It was full and explicit, and there was evidence to sustain it. Indeed, the proof tended to show, not only premeditation and deliberation, but that the defendant committed a cruel murder, in cold blood, upon his weak and defenseless wife. The language used by us in State v. Daniel, 139 N. C., at page 553, is appropriate to the facts as they appear in the record: “When we consider…
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