State v. Castle
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INdictmeNt against J. E. Castle and W. E. Garland, beard by Judge E. B. Jones and a jury, at April Term, 1903, of tbe Superior Court of Bubke County. Erom a verdict of guilty of murder in tbe second degree and judgment thereon the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCoNNOR, J.
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 Eitter Lumber Company at the terminus of its railway at Camp Greek 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 or…
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