State v. . Hill

On the trial several witnesses were examined, whose testimony was substantially as follows: The deceased and the prisoner had, for the last twelve months, been upon bad terms; had had several disputes, and on one occasion a rencounter, in which both parties drew their knives; the prisoner during the last summer had said that unless the deceased quit troubling him he would take his life; on the week before the (630) affair the prisoner had procured a knife twelve inches in length, and said he expected yet to kill some person with it; on Saturday, 28 September, the prisoner went to the house of…