State v. Hawkins

After careful consideration of all exceptive assignments, we find no error.

On the trial below the State offered evidence tending to show that: • The dead body of defendant’s wife, Mittie Geneva Hawkins, was found crumpled on the floor in the front room of their home near Cove City in Craven County, about 3 o’clock p.m. on 9 March, 1938. There were no eye-witnesses to the tragedy. A sound as of gunshot indoors was heard by neighbors about one-thirty o’clock. She had been shot over the heart with a shotgun, and No. 4 shot were taken from her body. - An ironing board was near by and a shirt was…