Legal Opinion

State v. . Bowman

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided January 5, 1878PublishedCited by 38 opinions

INDICTMENT for Murder, removed from Rockingham and tried at December Special Term, 1877, of Guileobd Superior Court, before Buxton, J. That portion of the case which constitutes the basis of the decision of this Court, is sufficiently set out in the opinion delivered by The Chibe Justice. Verdict of guilty. Appeal by the defendant.

1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.

The prisoner is charged with the crime of murder in administering poison to his wife, and upon the trial was found guilty. Judgment of death’was pronounced, from which he appealed to this Court.

The case presented for our review Contains a full and minute account of the trial, the evidence adduced for the State, the exceptions taken for the prisoner, aud thp rulings of the Court during its progress. The prisoner offered no-evidence. The exceptions are numerous and were elaborately argued upon tbe bearing before us by the Attorney General and the counsel for the prisoner, and their researches…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Heald v. ThingSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1858

3Cited by38 opinions

  1. State v. Wilcox.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1903
  2. McMechen v. McMechenWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1881
  3. State v. . PottsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1888
  4. Brewer v. RingSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1919
  5. Pigford v. . R. R.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1912

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