State v. . Byers

The prisoner, and one -James Stone, are charged in the indictment with the crime of murder, committed upon the body of Henry Edwards, and upon the arraignment of the prisoner, who alone was on trial, he entered the plea of not guilty. He was convicted by the verdict of the jury of the crime imputed, and, from the judgment of death pronounced, after an ineffectual application for a new trial by his counsel, appeals to this Court. Two witnesses, present at the killing, were examined by the Solicitor, and gave evidence of the manner in which it was done, and it is, in substance, as follows :

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