State v. . Hawkins

Criminal action on indictment charging defendant with the murder in the first degree of one Mittie Geneva Hawkins.

Verdict: Murder in the first degree.

Judgment: Death by asphyxiation.

Defendant appeals to Supreme Court and assigns error. After careful consideration of all exceptive assignments, we find no error.

On the trial below the State offered evidence tending to show that: The dead body of defendant's wife, Mittie Geneva Hawkins, was found crumpled on the floor in the front room of their home near Cove City in Craven County, about 3 o'clock p.m. on 9 March, 1938. There were no…