State v. . Freeman
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for murder tried before Brown, J., and a jury at Fall Term, 1897, of Hertford Superior Court. The defendants were convicted of murder in the second degree and appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, J.:
The prisoners in apt time requested the court in writing {Code, Sections 414 and 415) to charge that the evidence was not sufficient to establish the guilt of the accused for any offence; declined and prisoners excepted. The court charged the jury among other things that ‘ ‘if• they should find from the evidence that the prisoners at the bar and Prince Jernigan went to the house of the deceased in pursuance of a precon-certed arrangement to go together to the house of the deceased and pick a quarrel with him, and if he resisted that Jernigan should kill him, and if the jury should…
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