State v. . Davis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN tried before Bryson, J., and a jury at tbe December Term, 1918, of Eoesyth. Tbe prisoner was indicted for tbe murder of Charles White. . In order to understand tbe questions presented to this Court, it will be necessary only to state a portion of tbe testimony of Jacob Jackson, a witness for tbe State, and tbe assignments of errors, as follows: Jacob Jackson testified: “On 17 November, 1918, in tbe evening, I was standing on Depot Street, in front of Cook’s Cafe, and…
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ActioN tried before Bryson, J., and a jury at tbe December Term, 1918, of Eoesyth. Tbe prisoner was indicted for tbe murder of Charles White. . In order to understand tbe questions presented to this Court, it will be necessary only to state a portion of tbe testimony of Jacob Jackson, a witness for tbe State, and tbe assignments of errors, as follows: Jacob Jackson testified: “On 17 November, 1918, in tbe evening, I was standing on Depot Street, in front of Cook’s Cafe, and a crowd of about fifty or seventy-five people came by, defendant Will Davis being in tbe crowd, and they made me come…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating the case: There was plenary evidence to show that the prisoner shot the deceased, inflicting a mortal wound from which he died. The charge of the court upon all the different phases of the case was exhaustive and correct in every particular, and there is no exception to it. We will proceed, therefore, to consider the questions of evidence.
1. There is a slight error of fact in this assignment of error, as the witness Jacob Jackson stated, not that “some one in the crowd said 'Let’s hold him,’ but that 'they,’ meaning, of course, the crowd, said so. But, assuming that…
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