State v. . Booker
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IndiotmeNT for murder tried before Timberlake, J., at March Term, 1898, of Wake Superior Court. The prisoner was convicted of murder in the first degree of Mahaley White upon the following bill of indictment : Superior Court, January Term, 1898. The jurors for the State upon their oaths do present that Jim Booker, alias Jim Chavis, late of the County of Wake, with force and arms at and in the said county on the 29th day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight…
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IndiotmeNT for murder tried before Timberlake, J., at March Term, 1898, of Wake Superior Court. The prisoner was convicted of murder in the first degree of Mahaley White upon the following bill of indictment : Superior Court, January Term, 1898. The jurors for the State upon their oaths do present that Jim Booker, alias Jim Chavis, late of the County of Wake, with force and arms at and in the said county on the 29th day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Six, wilfully, fe-loniously, and of his malice aforethought did kill and murder Mahaley White, contrary…
1Opinion of the Court
Douglas, J.:
This is a conviction for murder in the first degree. The evidence, tended to show that the prisoner went to the home of the deceased in the morning of the day she was killed, and got some black pepper; that he went off, but came back in about an hour, with a gun, and without provocation shot the deceased in the back of the head, killing her instantly.
The only exceptions are to the charge and refusal to charge, none of which, in our opinion, can be sustained.
The able charge of his Honor correctly stated the law, and fully and clearly presented every reasonable contention of the…
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