State v. Faries

July 20, 1923. The opinion of the Court was delivered by William C. Faries was convicted of the murder of Newton Taylor and sentenced by the presiding Judge, Hon. J.E. Peurifoy, to death by electrocution.

Faries is a white man, 60 years old, the father of 16 children. The deceased, Newton Taylor, was a lad of 13, who lived with other members of his family in a house just across the street from the home of Faries in the town of Clover. On September 6, 1922, Faries, from or near the porch of his residence, killed with a shotgun Newton Taylor, for whose murder he was tried, and within a few…