State v. Bloomer

Tbe opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, C. J.:

This is an appeal by Harry J. Bloomer, who was charged, tried, convicted and sentenced for the statutory crimes of murder in the first degree (G. S. 1949, 21-401) and assault with felonious intent (G. S. 1949, 21-431).

Under the issues presented by the record procedural, rather than evidentiary, facts are decisive and must be related in chronological order as briefly as the state of the record permits. So far as here pertinent such facts may be stated thus:

On the evening of July 14, 1962, while riding as a passenger in the back seat of an…