State v. . Register

The prisoner Jabel B. Register is indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree, and H. B. Register, his father, is indicted in the same bill and convicted of being an accessory before the fact. The evidence of the State, if believed, showed that on Saturday afternoon, 28 March, 1903, Jabel met Cross Edmundson and told him his father (H. B. Register ) wished to see him; that together they went up to the house of H. B. Register, who told them that Jim Staley, a colored man staying with Jesse Soles, had between $1,000 and $2,000, and he wanted them to "hold up Jim Staley and get his…