State v. . Castle

The defendants were convicted of murder in the second degree, and from a judgment upon the verdict appealed to this Court.

The testimony tended to show that the defendant Castle was in charge as local manager of a lumber camp constructed and operated by the William Ritter Lumber Company at the terminus of its railway at Camp Creek in Burke County; that he had charge of the railway and all of the incidental work, including a boarding-house, where the hands ate and slept and in which the homicide occurred. At the time of the homicide there were more than sixty or seventy men in the camp. Forty…