State v. . Little
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Shaw, J., at April Term, 1919, of ANSON. Tbe defendant was convicted of murder in tbe first degree, and from the judgment upon such conviction appealed to this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBbowN, J.
Tbe prisoner was convicted of tbe murder of one Will R. Honeycutt on 19 September, 1918, and tbe record of tbe trial presents sixteen exceptions; one to tbe refusal to admit testimony, ten to tbe judge’s refusal to charge as requested, and five to bis charge as given. We will consider only two.
The homicide occurred at a cotton gin at Morven in Anson County. Tbe evidence tended to prove that tbe prisoner and tbe deceased bad an altercation about priority in getting under tbe sheds and to tbe gin with their wagons. There is no evidence that tbe deceased was armed. All tbe evidence proved that…
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