State v. . Moore

At tbe July Term, 1939, Pender Superior Court, tbe defendant herein, Jim Moore, was tried upon indictment charging him with tbe murder of one John Robert Fennell, alias John Robert Findle, alias John Robert Mims, which resulted in a conviction of “First Degree Murder as charged in tbe bill of indictment,” and sentence of death as the law commands upon such verdict.

From the judgment thus entered, the defendant gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court and was allowed 40 days from 20 July, 1939, to make up and serve his statement of case on appeal, and the solicitor was given the “same period…