State v. Hodge
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INUictmeNt for murder against John H. Hodge, heard by Judge C. S. Ferguson and a jury, at the May Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of Durham. Erom a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentence thereon, the prisoner appealed.
1DissentOoNNOR, J.
The testimony, as arrayed in the opinion of the Chief Justice, presents a case in which the enormity of the crime and the manifest guilt of the prisoner are well calculated to cause a Judge to hesitate to dissent from the judgment which brings merited punishment to the criminal. It is due to the learned and impartial Judge who tried the case, and I do not hesitate to say that he wisely exercised his discretion in declining to permit the witness *686Riggsbee to be sworn, provided it was a matter of discretion and not of absolute right.
I am impressed with the conviction that the conclusion to which…
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