State v. . Gee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT FOR murder, tried before Shepherd, Judge, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1884, of Cumberland Superior Court. The prisoner was charged with the murder of Mar/ Hughes, committed at her house on Monday night, September 29th, 1884. The deceased lived alone in the suburbs of Fayetteville, some two miles distant from the house of the prisoner, with whom she had kept criminal relations for four years preceding, he spending much of his time at night with her.
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INDICTMENT FOR murder, tried before Shepherd, Judge, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1884, of Cumberland Superior Court. The prisoner was charged with the murder of Mar/ Hughes, committed at her house on Monday night, September 29th, 1884. The deceased lived alone in the suburbs of Fayetteville, some two miles distant from the house of the prisoner, with whom she had kept criminal relations for four years preceding, he spending much of his time at night with her. The deceased had been on that day with Martha Campbell, a neighbor, engaged in ¡licking out cotton in the field, and about dark the two…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
(after stating the facts). The exceptions shown in the record are four in number, and these are now to be examined.
1. The rejection of the proof of threats and other declarations of Henry Campbell, offered to fasten the criminal act upon him and in exoneration of the accused.
The inquiry before the jury is as to the guilt of the accused, did he commit the homicide; and full and satisfactory evidence of this was required before there could be a conviction.
The fact that another co-operated and is also guilty, docs not disprove the charge against the prisoner, nor absolve him from responsibility.
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