State v. . Hopkins

At the November Term, 1939, Rutherford Superior Court, it being the term for the trial of criminal causes, the defendant was tried upon an indictment charging him with the capital felony of murder of one Roy Watkins. There was a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Judgment was thereupon duly entered that the defendant suffer the penalty of death by asphyxiation, as provided by law. S. v. Morris, 215 N. C., 552, 2 S. E. (2d), 554; S. v. Young, 216 N. C., 626. From the judgment thus entered the defendant gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court and was allowed forty-five days to…