State v. . Powell

The prisoner was indicted at Spring Term, 1875, of the Superior Court of Edgecombe County, and by consent was removed to the Superior Court of Halifax, where it was tried at June Term, 1875. The prisoner was found guilty of the murder of one Esadore Cohen as charged in the bill of indictment.

No statement of the case accompanies the record sent to this court upon appeal.

After the jury had returned their verdict, the prisoner moved the court for a new trial. The motion was overruled, and judgment of death pronounced.

At the last term of this court a certiorari was issued, upon motion of the…