State v. McCoy
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Moore, J., and a jury, November-December 1951 Term, Sootland. New trial. Criminal prosecution upon an indictment charging the defendant with the murder of one Raymond Hall. The incidents leading up to the killing of Raymond Hall transpired at his home on 21 October, 1951. Present at the time were Hall, his wife, Amelia, their 11-year-old son, and Mary Alice Boyd, a blind sister of Amelia.
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Appeal by defendant from Moore, J., and a jury, November-December 1951 Term, Sootland. New trial. Criminal prosecution upon an indictment charging the defendant with the murder of one Raymond Hall. The incidents leading up to the killing of Raymond Hall transpired at his home on 21 October, 1951. Present at the time were Hall, his wife, Amelia, their 11-year-old son, and Mary Alice Boyd, a blind sister of Amelia. At about 11 o’clock in the forenoon, the defendant met Raymond Hall and his wife at the home of Hall’s father, where they consumed about three quarts of liquor. Thereafter, the three…
1Opinion of the CourtYaleNtiNe, J.
In this enlightened age the humanity of the law is such that no man shall suffer death as a penalty for crime, except upon conviction in a trial free from substantial error and in which the constitutional and statutory safeguards for the protection of his rights have been scrupulously observed. Therefore, in all capital cases reaching this Court, it is the settled policy to examine the record for the ascertainment of reversible error. S. v. Watson, 208 N.C. 70, 179 S.E. 455; S. v. Stovall, 214 N.C. 695, 200 S.E. 426; S. v. Moore, 216 N.C. 543, 5 S.E. 2d 719; S. v. Williams, 216 N.C. 740, 6…
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