State v. . Best
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder, tried at Spring Term, 1892, of1 'Craven Superior Court, before Winston, J. There was but one exception to evidence.
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INDICTMENT for murder, tried at Spring Term, 1892, of1 'Craven Superior Court, before Winston, J. There was but one exception to evidence. The testimony ■offered by the State (there was hone on the part of the prisoner) tended to prove, by circumstantial evidence, that the deceased, who was the wife of the prisoner, came to her death from the effects of arsenical poison placed in the flour which was used by her in the preparation of dinner for herself and other members of her family; that the poison used was an .article called " Rough on Rats,” and was placed in said flour by the prisoner…
1Opinion of the Court
MacRab, J.,
after stating the case, proceeded : We can see no error in the admission of the testimony objected to, espe cially when taken in connection with the charge of his Honor to the jury, for he instructed them that before they could consider the testimony of the experts as to the analysis of the bread, flour and dough at all they must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt, that the bread, flour and dough analyzed were parts of the same of which deceased ate, and that caused her sickness and death, the same that Emperor Rouse gave to Dr. Primrose, and that it had not been tampered with…
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