State v. . Herring

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree of one F. F. Newton, on 28 June, 1930 (Saturday), and sentenced to be electrocuted.

The facts: Mr. Newton had been postmaster at Kerr for 24 years, he was 70 years old, and in good health, weighed about 200 pounds. Newton always walked home at noon for dinner, between 12 and 1 o'clock, and followed the path that led through Seller's field, and usually brought a white sack with the home mail and business letters in it. When he left home that Saturday morning to go to work at the postoffice, he was wearing a light shirt, light trousers…