Rowe v. State

Allen Rowe and William Rowe, jointly indicted, were convicted of murder in the first degree.

As the judgment must be reversed on other grounds, assignments of error relating to the qualifications of jurors, the appointment of bailiffs for the jury, and the refusal to permit two witnesses to testify in sur-rebuttal, need not be decided, as in all probability these questions will not arise in another trial of this cause.

On his direct examination, Hamp Thomas, a witness for the State, testified that the shooting occufréd about 375 yards from his house at 2 o ’clock in the afternoon; that he heard…