Legal Opinion

State v. . Boswell

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided September 15, 1926PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtStacy, C. J.

There was ample evidence tending to connect Ernest Boswell with tbe murder of Clayton Beaman, and we need not consider the exception based on tbe motion to nonsuit, except to say that tbe demurrer to tbe evidence was properly overruled.

A woman by .the name of Jennette Stewart was with tbe defendant on tbe night of tbe homicide, and she figured in tbe evidence, both of tbe State and tbe defendant, as Johnnie Stewart. She was evidently a concubine of tbe defendant.

On 29 April, 1925, more tban two months after tbe homicide, and while tbe defendant was out on bail, having been arrested tbe second…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. . WhitenerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1926
  2. Woody v. Carolina Spruce Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1918

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Kinston v. . R. R.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1922
  2. State v. . BoswellSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1927

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