State v. . McKenzie
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Lyon, J., at September Term, 1913, of RobesoN. The defendant was indicted for the murder of one Peter D. Jones, in Scotland County, on 22 October, 1912. From a judgment rendered on a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, he appealed. The prisoner was the brother-in-law of the deceased, and his wife died about ten days before the homicide.
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Appeal from Lyon, J., at September Term, 1913, of RobesoN. The defendant was indicted for the murder of one Peter D. Jones, in Scotland County, on 22 October, 1912. From a judgment rendered on a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, he appealed. The prisoner was the brother-in-law of the deceased, and his wife died about ten days before the homicide. There was evidence tending to show ill-feeling between the prisoner and his wife’s family on.account of supposed ill-treatment of his wife by the prisoner. The youngest child of the prisoner had been taken by his wife’s family to their…
1Opinion of the Court
CiARK, O. J.
Exceptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are to the admission of testimony to show the feelings of the prisoner towards the family of his deceased wife, whose brother he slew, by reason of their allegations of ill-treatment of his wife by prisoner, and their feeling towards him, as tending to show motive for the crime. Evidence of former difficulties between the defendant and the deceased and the state of feelings between them is admissible on a trial for homicide, and it is also proper to introduce evidence tending to show the cause of such difficulties and ill-feeling. 21 Cyc., 915;…
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