State v. . Millican

The defendants were indicted at May Term, 1911, of the Superior Court of Lenoir County, under section 3338 of the Revisal, for burning a warehouse in LaGrange.

They were tried on the indictment at October term of said (619) court, and upon failure of the jury to agree, a juror was withdrawn and a new trial ordered. They were tried a second time at January Term, 1912, of said court, and convicted.

The judge presiding sentenced each of the defendants to a term of thirty years at hard labor in the State's Prison, and they appealed. If we were permitted to examine the evidence for the purpose of…