Lawrence v. Shaw

The judgment in this case was predicated upon the affirmative answer to each of the questions presented to the Court on the facts agreed. If these answers were correct, the judgment must be affirmed; otherwise, the judgment must be reversed, or modified.

Affirmative answers to the first and second questions are in accord with the decision of this Court in Martin v. Guilford County, 201 N. C., 63, 158 S. E., 847, 76 L. R. A., 978, and with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Trotter v. State of Tennessee, 290 U. S., 354, 78 L. Ed., 368.

The question presented in Martin v.…