State v. Lipscomb.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against Archie Lipscomb, heard, by ‘Judge C. M. GooTce and a jury, at February Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Geanville County. Tbe defendant was indicted in tbe Superior Court for tbe murder of Caswell Merrett, and having been convicted of murder in tbe first degree appealed. Mary Merrett, a witness for tbe State, testified: “I am tbe wife of tbe deceased, Caswell Merrett, wlio was about forty years old. He lived on W. L. Umstead’s place in this county.
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INDICTMENT against Archie Lipscomb, heard, by ‘Judge C. M. GooTce and a jury, at February Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Geanville County. Tbe defendant was indicted in tbe Superior Court for tbe murder of Caswell Merrett, and having been convicted of murder in tbe first degree appealed. Mary Merrett, a witness for tbe State, testified: “I am tbe wife of tbe deceased, Caswell Merrett, wlio was about forty years old. He lived on W. L. Umstead’s place in this county. Arab Lipscomb lived about one-quarter of a mile from us. On Friday night, January 10b, it being dark and cloudy, and about…
1Opinion of the Court
WaleeR, J.,
after stating the case. There was no exception taken to the charge so far as it related to murder in the first degree. In this respect the instructions of the Court to the jury were full and explicit and sustained by all of the authorities. State v. Gilchrist, 113 N. C., 673; State v. Fuller, 114 N. C., 885; State v. Norwood, 115 N. C., 789; 44 Am. St. Rep., 498; State v. McCormac, 116 N. C., 1033; State v. Gadberry, 117 N. C., 811; State v. Govington, 117 N. C., 834; State v. Thomas, 118 N. C., 1113; State v. Dowden, 118 N. C., 1145; State v. Rhyne, 124 N. C., 847; State v.…
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