State v. Daniels

The petitioners, Bennie Daniels and Lloyd Ray Daniels, were tried at May Term, 1949, of Pitt County Superior Court on an indictment charging them with the murder of William Benjamin O’Neal, and were convicted of murder in the first degree, without recommendation of mercy, and were sentenced to death. From this judgment they gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and an order was made permitting them to appeal in forma pauperis. Not having per fected that appeal by serving ease on appeal within the time allowed, they petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to…