State v. . Harris

Criminal prosecution tried upon indictment charging the defendant with the murder of Mrs. E. A. Bill.

The record discloses that on Thursday, 27 August, 1942, the defendant entered Bill's Service Station in Hoke County, which is about 2 1/2 miles from Raeford on the Fayetteville Highway, and shot three members of the Bill family, one after the other, in rapid succession, and killed them all. Those killed were Mrs. E. A. Bill, her son, Eugene Bill, and her married daughter, Mrs. Estelle Wilson.

Three separate indictments were returned against the defendant charging him with the several homicides.…