State v. Hudson

The law in reference to homicide is as follows: N. C. Code, 1939 (Michie), sec. 4200: “A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, burglary or other felony, shall be deemed to be murder in the first degree and shall be punishable with death. All other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree and shall be punished with imprisonment of not less than…