State v. Exum.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against William Exum, beard by Judge Fred Moore and a jury, at September Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of LeNOik County for the murder of Guy Walston. The evidence on the part of the State tends to show that the homicide occurred on Saturday, September 3, 1904, at the house of Eunie Walston in Lenoir County.
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INDICTMENT against William Exum, beard by Judge Fred Moore and a jury, at September Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of LeNOik County for the murder of Guy Walston. The evidence on the part of the State tends to show that the homicide occurred on Saturday, September 3, 1904, at the house of Eunie Walston in Lenoir County. Mrs. Exum (formerly Mrs. Walston), the mother of the deceased and of Eunie Walston, and wife of the prisoner, was on a visit, with her husband, at the home of her son, Eunie, whose wife was confined in bed by fever. They arrived on Tuesday before the homicide occurred on…
1Opinion of the Court
Hoke, J.,
after stating tbe case: We have given this record and the exceptions noted in the case on appeal the close scrutiny and careful consideration which the supreme importance of the issue demands, and can find no error to the prejudice of the prisoner or his cause.
The first twelve exceptions, and exceptions 16 and 17, are to the admission of evidence showing previous threats on the part of the prisoner against' the deceased. These threats were in July previous, and some as far back as January or February, 1-904. They tend to show deep seated animosity against the deceased, some of them…
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