State v. . Howard
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Shepherd, Judge, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1884, of the Superior Court of CUMBERLAND County. There was a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner appealed from the judgment pronounced. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
A,she, J.
The prisoner was indicted for the murder of one C. L. Blackman. The evidence on the part of the State disclosed the following facts: On 'Wednesday, the 29th day of October, 1884, the day of the homicide, the prisoner and defendant liad been together, during the morning, on the premises of the deceased, where a fire had broken out, and the prisoner assisted the deceased in controlling it. That the deceased was indebted to the prisoner in the sum of fifteen dollars, and, after leaving the fire and returning to the house of the prisoner, which was about two and a half miles distance,…
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