State v. . Rogers
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment — Murder—Judge's Charge. INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Graves, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of NORTHAMPTON County. The following is the substance of the evidence offered on the part of the State: Dr. I. T. Eld ridge was examined as a witness for the State, who was admitted to be an expert, and he testified that the deceased Millard Peebles died of wounds inflicted upon the left side of his head.
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Indictment — Murder—Judge's Charge. INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Graves, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of NORTHAMPTON County. The following is the substance of the evidence offered on the part of the State: Dr. I. T. Eld ridge was examined as a witness for the State, who was admitted to be an expert, and he testified that the deceased Millard Peebles died of wounds inflicted upon the left side of his head. The symptoms, he said, indicated a depression caused by a traverse wound on the head, above his left ear, an inch and one-fourth in the flesh, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Ashe, J.,
(after stating the facts). There was no eri'or in this ruling. It is founded on a principle too well and too long settled, to admit of a question. This was the only instruction asked by the prisoner before the case-was submitted to the jury, but after the verdict, his counsel filed a number of exceptions to the charge of his Honor, nearly all of which were taken too late, but there were one or two that we think are worthy of our consideration, a-peoiallv, “that the charge consists of abstract propositions of law, without making application of them to the facts of the case,” and, “he…
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