State v. . Hall

The defendants, with Peck Locklear, were indicted in the court below for the murder of Philip Barton. At the trial and after the evidence was concluded, the State consented to a verdict of not guilty as to Peck Locklear, the court having intimated that there was no evidence against him, and the other defendants were convicted of manslaughter.

It appears from the case that on Christmas day, 1902, the defendants John Hall, Pink Woods, and Peck Locklear went to the house of Elizabeth Barton, where Nep Barton, her son, lived. No one was there at the time but Kitty Barton and a small boy named…