State v. Williams

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice BlEasE.

On September 14, 1930, the dead body of John B. James, a white man about fifty years of age, of Baurinburg, N. C., ■was found in an automobile on Highway No. 9, in Marlboro County, at a point about two hundred yards distant from a house known as “the old Charles Irby house,” where negroes resided. The examination of the attending physicians showed that death was caused by a knife wound inflicted upon the right side of the neck of the deceased, about an inch below the angle of the jaw, the wound extending about two and one-half…