State v. . Morgan
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an INDICTMENT for Infanticide, tried before Boy-kin, Judge, at August Term, 1886, of RowaN Superior Court. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The prisoner is charged with the murder of her own infant child, born a bastard, committed soon after birth. Evidence was introduced for the State, tending* to prove that the prisoner gave birth to a living child in a barn in the town of Salisbury, and buried it head downward in a small hole in the ground, covering the body with hay and straw. There were no marks of violence upon its person.
The solicitor, after objection from the prisoner, was allowed to show by the testimony of an expert, that there were divers ways by which the mother could have murdered it without producing any external…
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