State v. Perry

The defendant Charles Perry was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by asphyxiation.

The witness Joseph Terry stood indicted upon another bill of indictment for the same homicide for which the defendant was being tried. The witness was not on trial. There was no eye-witness to the homicide. All of the evidence tended to show that the defendant Perry and the witness Terry were together on the night of the homicide, that they separated, and then rejoined each other.

The contention of the defendant, as shown by his own testimony, was that the defendant went with the…