State v. . McClure

This is an indictment for murder. The prisoner, a negro boy, was found guilty of the murder in the first degree of R. L. Bain, a deputy sheriff, and was sentenced to death, and appealed.

The record shows evidence tending to establish the following facts:

Pomona Station is about 3 miles west of Greensboro, and Pomona Cotton Mill is about one-half mile west of Pomona Station, both being on railroad and public road. Terra Cotta is about a quarter of a mile northwest of Pomona Mill. A street-car line runs out west from Greensboro to a little car shed on a cross-road running north from Pomona Mill.…