State v. Covington
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Timberlake, J., and a jury, at Spring Term, 1895, of Oataavba Superior Court. It appeared from the evidence that tbe deceased was part owner, as a stockholder and general superintendent, of Long Island Cotton Mills, and that he lived with his family about 250 yards from the mill, and that the prisoner Avas an employee at the mill, being superintendent of the spinning room.
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INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Timberlake, J., and a jury, at Spring Term, 1895, of Oataavba Superior Court. It appeared from the evidence that tbe deceased was part owner, as a stockholder and general superintendent, of Long Island Cotton Mills, and that he lived with his family about 250 yards from the mill, and that the prisoner Avas an employee at the mill, being superintendent of the spinning room. It further appears that the deceased had a stock of merchandise in a storehouse about 100 feet from mill, and that for more than a year some one had been occasionally entering said sto're…
1Opinion of the Court
Averey, J.:
His Honor excluded from the jury the question of murder in the second degree and instructed them that in no view of the case as presented by the evidence was the prisoner guilty of murder in the second degree or manslaughter. To this the prisoner excepted. The charge is correct if there is no evidence of murder in the second degree or of manslaughter. The evidence relied upon by the State is the confession of the prisoner to the witness Josey, and circumstances detailed by other witnesses tend*861ing to'confirm it. Upon the truth or falsity of the confession the guilt of the prisoner…
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