State v. Hines

The State offered as one of its witnesses Joe Alston This is a summary of his testimony, except when quoted: He is 26 years old and is a brother of John Thomas Alston, who is 25 years old. Between 8 and 8:30 p.m. on 16 February 1965 he, his brother John Thomas Alston, Rudolph Hines, James William Leak, George Albert McNeill, and Jimmy Lawrence McNeill met at a service station on South Street in the city of Raleigh. All six of them got into George Albert McNeill’s automobile. They rode down Highway #401 to its intersection with Highway #70, then they went down Highway #70 to the town of…