State v. Miller

At a regular term of the Superior Court of Beaufort County, North Carolina, held on the 14th day of January, 1952, for the trial of criminal cases exclusively, Williams, J., presiding, the defendant Lafayette Miller was tried upon a bill of indictment charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree for the killing of one Harvey C. Boyd. There was a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree as charged in the bill of indictment, upon which judgment of death as required by law was pronounced by the court at said term of Superior Court.

From this judgment defendant gave notice of…