State v. . Hicks
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Bryan, Jand a jury at May Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of Dueham County. The prisoner, a child of about eleven years of age, was indicted for the murder of Annie Belle Justice, a child of about two years of age, by fatally burning her. The evidence, the Judge’s charge, and the exceptions thereto, are sufficiently stated in the opinion. There was a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree.
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INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Bryan, Jand a jury at May Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of Dueham County. The prisoner, a child of about eleven years of age, was indicted for the murder of Annie Belle Justice, a child of about two years of age, by fatally burning her. The evidence, the Judge’s charge, and the exceptions thereto, are sufficiently stated in the opinion. There was a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. Judgment of imprisonment in the State Prison, for seven years. Appeal by the defendant to the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
"MONTGOMERY, J.
The defendant, a child of 11 years of age, according to the testimony of one witness, and of 14, according to the testimony of another, was convicted of murder in the second degree at the May Term, 1899, of Durham Superior Court. The deceased was an infant just beginning to walk, and was being nursed by the defendant. The principal evidence upon which the defendant was convicted was the testimony of Sally Leathers, as follows: “Was there when the body was burned; it was after 12 m; Cora took body by the heels, and bad her head between her legs holding it more on one side than…
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