State v. . Shields
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder tried at Fall Term, 1883, of Meck-lenburg Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The prisoner is charged with killing one Joseph G. Sittoiu Numerous exceptions were taken on the trial, but it is not deemed necessary to an understanding of the opinion of this court to set out more than is applicable to the point decided.
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INDICTMENT for murder tried at Fall Term, 1883, of Meck-lenburg Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The prisoner is charged with killing one Joseph G. Sittoiu Numerous exceptions were taken on the trial, but it is not deemed necessary to an understanding of the opinion of this court to set out more than is applicable to the point decided. The state introduced evidence tending to show that on Tuesday, 5th of June, 1883, the prisoner, who lived with his father’s family, about 250 yards from the house of his brother, David Shields, who had married a sister of the deceased, went to the house of the…
1Opinion of the CourtMfiRRXMON, J.
The letter of the deceased, written the night before, and found in his trunk soon after the homicide, addressed to, bnt never received by Mollie Shields, the witness and sister of the prisoner, and admitted in evidence, was incompetent and ought to have been rejected.
The prisoner was examined on the trial as a witness in his-own behalf, and his sister Moll ie xvas likewise examined for him, her testimony tending mainly to corroborate his. The principal purpose of their testimony was to show that the prisoner, having learned that the deceased had seduced his sister and was about to leave the…
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