State v. . Davis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Murder tried at Spring Term, 1877, of 'Madison Superior Court, before Furches, J. The- case is sufficiently stated by Mr. Justice Bynum in. delivering the opinion of this Court. Verdict of guilty. Judgment. Appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
This case is here upon two exceptions taken on the trial below to the rulings of the Court, excluding as incompetent certain testimony which was offered by the prisoner:
1. The prisoner proposed to prove by one Peck, “that Geo. Nicks had malice towards the deceased and had a motive to take his life, and the apportunity to do so, and had threatened to do so, before Court.”
2. He offered to prove by one Rice, that one Peek took a gun and went in the direction of the house of the deceased with the threat that he was going to kill the deceased sometime before the deceased was killed.”
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