State v. . Ferrell

At the March Term, 1933, Durham Superior Court, the defendant in the above entitled cause was tried upon an indictment charging him, and two others, with the murder of one Thaddeus Tilley, which resulted in a conviction and sentence of death. The defendant appealed to the Supreme Court. The judgment was affirmed in an opinion filed 10 January, 1934. S.v. Ferrell, 205 N.C. 640.

At the next succeeding term of Durham Superior Court following affirmance of the judgment on appeal, the defendant lodged a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence under authority of S.v. Casey,…