State v. . Brackville

* The prisoner escaped from jail while his appeal was pending in this Court. It was thereupon dropped from the docket, and afterwards reinstated upon his recapture. The prisoner (and one Amy McNair, who was acquitted,) was indicted for the murder of one Charles McNair.

The testimony was as follows:

Willis Leach, for the State, testified: "Charles McNair was missing on a Friday night in October, 1884. On Friday evening I was going by his house. I noticed that everything was very still. John Brackville came to the door. McNair was lying at the other door on a pallet. I stopped and sat down. I saw…