State v. . Crowson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IndictmeNt for murder, tried before MacRae, Judge, at Spring Term, 1887, of Mitchell Superior Court. The jury found the prisoner guilty of murder, and from the judgment thereon pronounced she appealed. The prisoner is charged in the indictment with the murder, by drowning, of her infant son, of about the age of four years, and was found by the jury guilty of the crime.
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IndictmeNt for murder, tried before MacRae, Judge, at Spring Term, 1887, of Mitchell Superior Court. The jury found the prisoner guilty of murder, and from the judgment thereon pronounced she appealed. The prisoner is charged in the indictment with the murder, by drowning, of her infant son, of about the age of four years, and was found by the jury guilty of the crime. The testimony, in substance, was that about the middle of the ... day in January, 1887, the prisoner was -seen with her child in her arms going down the public road, from which, at a point further on, tracks were afterwards…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the case). The only point upon which stress is laid in the argument of prisoner’s counsel, and upon which the record calls on us .to decide, is the competency of the evidence of the prisoner’s act in conducting the officer to the brink of the stream where she last had the child, and to her remark about the drowning of negroes by herself.
These are most clearly confessions — the act as expressive as words could be — of her having carried her boy to the place whence it seems to have been cast into the water and there disposed of it.
It is not less apparent that these…
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