State v. Davis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INdictmeNt for the murder of Lewis Shew, tried before Carter, J., and a jury, at August Term, 1917, of WilKEs. Defendant was convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to three years imprisonment and appealed. On Sunday afternoon, 22 October, 1916, the defendant had gone to the home of Isaac Clark for a visit, and later went to the home of Mrs. Lucy Clark near-by.
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INdictmeNt for the murder of Lewis Shew, tried before Carter, J., and a jury, at August Term, 1917, of WilKEs. Defendant was convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to three years imprisonment and appealed. On Sunday afternoon, 22 October, 1916, the defendant had gone to the home of Isaac Clark for a visit, and later went to the home of Mrs. Lucy Clark near-by. At about dark the deceased Lewis Shew and two brothers and a man named Porter came down the road in the direction of Mrs. Olark’s “hollering and cursing.” Mrs. Clark went out and asked them to go away; defendant and Julius Clark then went…
1Opinion of the Court
Waleer, J.,
after stating tbe ease: Tbe defendant contended that be did not kill tbe deceased, but that be was shot by someone else, present at tbe time of tbe killing and who bad a pistol of. smaller calibre than tbe one be carried, and offered evidence, including medical testimony, as to. tbe nature and extent of tbe wound, to prove bis contention. During tbe trial be entered numerous exceptions to tbe rulings of tbe court, as many as sixty-three in all, but- has abandoned twenty-eight of them; and of those that are left there are several which are pointed to tbe same question, and we will,…
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