State v. . Thomas

Indictment for murder. The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree. The defendant shot and killed the deceased in Bergerberg, a suburb of Kannapolis, between 8 and 9 o'clock on the night of 25 October, 1921. About 8 o'clock the defendant, according to his statement, accompanied by Mrs. Robert Lowe, left the Cline boarding-house at Kannapolis in a Buick car, intending to go to the home of Oscar Overcash, who lived near the scene of the homicide. After getting into the car he laid his pistol in Mrs. Lowe's lap. About the same time the deceased, traveling in a Ford sedan, carried…