State v. . Buffkin

The defendant was charged with the felonious slaying of D. P. Barefoot. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree.

The evidence for the State tended to show that the homicide occurred on the shore of Lake Waccamaw, at a point called Dupree's Landing, about midnight of 9 August, 1935; that the defendant, who was a married man, had driven there with a party in his automobile; that on the front seat with defendant were Mrs. Susie Lineberry and Ted Norris, and that Mrs. Nobles and Cyrus Cliff were on the back seat; that before going to the lake, while in the town of Whiteville,…