State v. Casey

The evidence in this case was to the effect, which was believed by the jury, that I ames C. Causey, in charge of the logging operations, of the Atlas Plywood Corporation, of Goldsboro, N. C., on 3 July, 1930, was going through an isolated woodland section of Lenoir County, N. C. That he was driving a Hudson Coach, on a narrow road, about 12 o’clock noon, and met defendant Herman Casey, driving a truck. Both stopped facing each other. Casey got out of his truck walked around on the right-hand side of Causey’s car, reached in his pocket and got a pistol and shot Causey twice in the head. He…