State v. Potter

The prisoner was convicted of murder in the first degree of A. W. Howell at Spring Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of Watauga County. There was evidence on the part of the State tending to show that a warrant was issued by a justice of the peace and placed in the hands of Calvin Turnmire, a constable, to be served on the prisoner, and that another warrant issued by a justice of the peace named Smith, in which the prisoner and Boone Pot*720ter, bis near kinsman, were intended to be charged with a forcible trespass, was placed in the hands of the deceased as a specially deputized officer for…