State v. Hunt.

Tbe prisoner was convicted of murder in tbe first degree. Tbe deceased was in charge of a store belonging to bis brother, who employed tbe prisoner as a saw-mill band. It was in evidence that the deceased had no authority to settle with the saw-mill hands, that the deceased went to the store that Saturday night and stated in conversation with one West, about a half hour before the homicide, that “he would have his pay or there would be a God d — n dead nigger there that night.” He left, but returned to the store about 9 o’clock, asked for a settlement, deceased told him he could not pay him…