State v. Harris
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Long, J., at November Term, 1920, of RUNCOMBE. Tbe prisoner was convicted of the murder in the first degree of F. W. Monnish. The evidence for the State was that on 3 September, 1920, about 10 a. m., the prisoner, J. T. Harris, a merchant of Ridgecrest, "Buncombe County, lay in wait in weeds near a path coming from the cottage of F. W. Monnish to the postoffice at that station and with a shotgun fired two charges into Monnish as he passed by.
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Appeal by defendant from Long, J., at November Term, 1920, of RUNCOMBE. Tbe prisoner was convicted of the murder in the first degree of F. W. Monnish. The evidence for the State was that on 3 September, 1920, about 10 a. m., the prisoner, J. T. Harris, a merchant of Ridgecrest, "Buncombe County, lay in wait in weeds near a path coming from the cottage of F. W. Monnish to the postoffice at that station and with a shotgun fired two charges into Monnish as he passed by. Soon after, about 10:45, a train going to Asheville arrived, Monnish was placed. upon this train and died before arriving at…
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, O. J.
There are only three assignments of error, except the formal ones to the refusal to set aside the verdict and to the judgment, and it is unnecessary to make a fuller statement of the record. The slaying was admitted, and the defense rests upon the plea of insanity.
A number of experts testified for the State that in their opinion, upon the facts recited in the hypothetical questions propounded by the State, that the prisoner was not insane at the time of the killing. There was also evidence by a large number of witnesses, who were more or less in frequent association with the…
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