State v. . Leonard

The defendant was indicted for the murder of Evelyn A. Gentry. When the action was called for trial, and before the jury was empaneled, the Solicitor for the State announced that he did not ask for a verdict of murder in the first degree, but only for a verdict of murder in the second degree, or manslaughter, as the facts might justify. To the charge in the bill of indictment the defendant plead, Not Guilty.

The evidence on the part of the State: That of Rev. C. K. Gentry was to the effect that the lived at Kannapolis, attended religious services in Concord on the night of 12 May, 1927. He was…