State v. . Cureton

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and from judgment of death appealed to the Supreme Court, assigning errors.

The State’s evidence tended to show that on the night of 14 January, 1939, the deceased, Melvin Nesbit, and one Fannie Byrd had been to a party on Underwood Avenue in the city of Winston-Salem, and about 1 o’clock a.m., they went to the house of the defendant, James Cureton, about two or three houses from the party; that the deceased engaged in a gambling game with tbe defendant and others at the defendant’s •house; that .about 5 o’clock a.m., deceased and…