State v. . McKinnon

The defendants were convicted of the murder, in the first degree, of J. H. Boney, and sentenced by the court below to be electrocuted. The State’s evidence tended to prove that J. H. Boney was a strawberry grower, 66 years old, living near Tin City, in Duplin County. He had a great many negro strawberry pickers who came from nearby places to pick strawberries, among them the defendant, Ed. McKinnon. He furnished the pickers houses to live in. On Thursday, 25 April, '1929, J. H. Boney was discovered dead about 11 o’clock at night, at the rear end of his pack-house or barn, about 25 yards back…