State v. . Anderson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an INDICTMENT for murder, heard before Avery, Judge, and a jury, at January Special Term, 1885, of Caldwell Superior Court. James Hoskins, a witness for the State, testified as follows: The homicide occurred on Sunday. On that Sunday I rode with prisoner and Ed. Ray a part of the way from Bakersville in the direction of the mica mines. They were on horseback. This was before the homicide occurred.
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This was an INDICTMENT for murder, heard before Avery, Judge, and a jury, at January Special Term, 1885, of Caldwell Superior Court. James Hoskins, a witness for the State, testified as follows: The homicide occurred on Sunday. On that Sunday I rode with prisoner and Ed. Ray a part of the way from Bakersville in the direction of the mica mines. They were on horseback. This was before the homicide occurred. Before I left the prisoner that day, he told me that if he should stay out at the mine that week, he wanted me to come out to see him, and take a deer-hunt, and he wished me to tell Mr.…
1Opinion of the CourtAsi-ib, J.
(after stating the facts). There were a number of exceptions taken by the prisoner to the rulings of the court in admitting and rejecting evidence, and to the charge of the court to the jury, and the refusal to give the instructions asked by the prisoner.
The first exception: Stewart, a witness for the State, had testified that he was at the mine on Sunday evening when the prisoner and Ray arrived. Soon after their arrival, he went home, leaving Horton alive at the mine, but, within a few minutes after getting home, he heard the report of fire-arms in the direction of the mine and hurried back…
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