State v. . Lowry

The prisoners were convicted of the murder, in the first degree, of Grant Davis on Sunday afternoon, 7 March, 1915. There was evidence that the deceased shortly before the homicide had received money for his cotton crop, part of it in new bills of the King's Mountain Bank; that the prisoners had been at his house shortly before the day of the murder, and that on the afternoon of the homicide the deceased, with $300 on his person, left his house with one John Adams; that John Adams, as was testified by him and others, parted from the deceased before the prisoners met him, and he was seen no…