State v. . Pierce
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder tried at January Special Term, 1884, of Iked ell Superior Court, before Graves, J. Verdict of guilty, judgment, appeal by prisoner.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The prisoner is charged with the crime of murder committed upon the body of James A. Moore, and upon his trial before the jury was found guilty.
The record shows numerous exceptions to the ruling of the court made during the progress of the trial, one only of which do we find it necessary to consider.
Two witnesses, present at the time of the homicide and who givj a minute account of what occurred, (the prisoner’s wife and an elder sister, both daughters of the 'deceased) were examined and testified at great length, whose respecr tive statements of the transaction do not agree in some essential…
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