State v. . Brice

The defendant was tried upon a bill of indictment charging him with the murder of one Shealey Lea, alias Shelly Lea, on 17 April, A.D. 1926. There was verdict of murder in the first degree. All the evidence tends to show that the crime was committed on the day named in the bill of indictment, and prior to 1 July, 1935, the date on which the statute, providing for death by administration of lethal gas became effective. Public Laws 1935, cb. 294. Judgment is tbat defendant suffer the penalty of death by electrocution. S. v. Hester, 209 N. C., 99, 182 S. E., 738; S. v. Dingle, 209 N. C., 293,…