State v. . Harris

The prisoner is indicted for murder. On theMi trial below, three witnesses were sworn in behalf of the r State. The first was a young female, an inmate of the prisoner’s family, who stated, that, when she returned heme^ about twelve o’clock, from a neighbor’s, she found there, with the prisoner, a man who was a stranger to her, the deceased. The parties- remained together in the porch of the house, until near sunset, when she. heard loud and angry talking. The prisoner accused the deceased of having put counterfeit money on him, and immediately went out and took the,horse of the deceased,…