State v. . Elliott
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for murder, tried before Cloud, J., at the Fall ■Term, 1872, of the Superior Court of Davidson county. The defendant was indicted for killing one Jesse F. Harris. ■-'On the trial in the Superior Court, a number of exceptions uvere taken to the rulings of his Honor on points arising, •both in. relation to the selection of the jury and to the admission of evidence, and also to his Honor’s charge to the jury after the evidence and arguments had closed.
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Indictment for murder, tried before Cloud, J., at the Fall ■Term, 1872, of the Superior Court of Davidson county. The defendant was indicted for killing one Jesse F. Harris. ■-'On the trial in the Superior Court, a number of exceptions uvere taken to the rulings of his Honor on points arising, •both in. relation to the selection of the jury and to the admission of evidence, and also to his Honor’s charge to the jury after the evidence and arguments had closed. These-exceptions to the evidence and the charge of his Honor, it i&> unnecessary to state, as they are wholly irrelevant to the point…
1Opinion of the CourtSettle, J.
On the trial, the prisoner introduced as a*, witness Mrs. Beck, who testified: “ I am a sister of the prisoner’s wife; on the afternoon of the day of the homicide, I saw the prisoner come out of his house with a bottle of camphor, in a great hurry. I went with the prisoner to the deceased ; prisoner rubbed the deceased with camphor a great-deal, did all he could for him. I did not rub the prisoner - any. My mother, Mrs. Rainey Owen, brought water from the spring and put it on his head. I went as fast as I could to the-place, when I heard what was the matter; saw a rock close by on the ground…
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