State v. . Rideout

Evidence offered by the State tends to show facts as follows: Alex Hedgepeth, while standing at the edge of the woods, on the lands of Roy Howell, in Nash County, observing two men at work at a whiskey still, located in said woods, between 9 and 10 o’clock on the night of 31 May, 1924, was wounded on the head by shot fired from a gun. He fell to the ground and died almost immediately. His death was caused by the gunshot wound. The shots which inflicted the fatal wound were fired from the direction of the whiskey still. Only one gun was fired from that direction. Almost simultaneously with the…