State v. . Steele

Defendant was indicted for the murder of Will Cauthern. From a judgment on a verdict of "guilty of murder in the first degree," defendant appealed. No error.

The State's evidence tended to show that the body of Will Cauthern was found in a branch in Union County, and that his neck had been cut three times. The trachea was cut, as well as all the large veins and muscles of the neck, and the cartilage between the vertebrae was cut almost into the spinal cord. The jugular vein was cut and there was a cut on the back of his head, a blunt cut, or tear, by some blunt instrument with serrated edges.…