State v. . Bridgers

The prisoner and one McLean Lanier are •charged in 'different counts of the indictment as principals in the first and second degree, each with the murder of one ■Jacob Best, by cutting and stabbing with a knife, and the .prisoner alone being arraigned was tried upon his plea of •not guilty. The jury in their verdict acquit of the murder •and find him guilty of the felonious slaying, as charged in the bill. The only error assigned in the record is in the admission in evidence against the accused of the examination of the deceased taken before a justice on the day after the assault,

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