State v. Little

It appears from tbe findings of fact which accompany tbe case on appeal and are a part of it that, at tbe criminal term aforesaid, indictments were pending against defendant for illegal traffic in spirituous liquors and that a brother of defendant, Hector Little, was also indicted for similar offenses, and that a principal witness against these defendants was one ~W. E. Reynolds; that on Tuesday night of tbe term about 9 P. M., before tbe trial of tbe cases, at a cafe in tbe town of Rockingham, near tbe court bouse and near tbe hotel where tbe judge was staying, tbe said witness was violently…