State v. . Cole
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for murder, tried before Mcieliae, Judge, and a jury, at August Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of MoojRE county. The prisoner is charged with the crime of murder, committed on the body of Mahala Cole, his wife, in administering, and inducing her to take, a deadly poison known as strychnia, in quantity sufficient to cause, and which did cause, her immediate death.
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Indictment for murder, tried before Mcieliae, Judge, and a jury, at August Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of MoojRE county. The prisoner is charged with the crime of murder, committed on the body of Mahala Cole, his wife, in administering, and inducing her to take, a deadly poison known as strychnia, in quantity sufficient to cause, and which did cause, her immediate death. Upon his trial before the jury, he was found guilty, and from the judgment thereon he appealed to this Court. The testimony offered on the part of the State, (for none was offered by the prisoner,) so far as is…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the facts). Except a motion in arrest of judgment, not pressed in this Court, and in our opinion not warranted by the form of the indictment, which pursues an approved precedent, Arch. Cr. PL 186, these are the only errors pointed out and complained of, as having been committed on the trial of the prisoner, and these only are we required to consider in his application for a new trial. ■
1st Exception. Dr. Arnold was permitted to give an account of the illness of the deceased in the year 1873.
No ground is assigned, upon which the objection to the competency of the…
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