State v. Meservey

On the 30th 'day of April, 1926, defendant shot and instantly killed Hugh L. McNamara, sheriff of Hyde county.' He was afterward tried and convicted of murder and on the 16th of June, 1926, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From the judgment and an order denying a new trial, he appeals.

The shooting occurred in Hyde county on a farm that had been the home of appellant and his family for many years. 'Difficulties arising from the foreclosure of a mortgage and subsequent litigation over the farm culminated in the homicide. Appellant had lost the farm through the…