State v. Heyward

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Carter.

The record discloses the following facts leading up to the killing of Paul B.. Cardin, and which are essential to an understanding of the case: That deceased, a rural policeman of Beaufort County, accompanied W. H. Randall, a magistrate’s constable, to the Seabrook community of Beaufort County, where Mr. Randall was going for the purpose of arresting Willie Heyward for whom Mr. Randall had a warrant charging a misdemeanor; that they took along with them a small Negro boy, Paul Middleton; that Willie Pleyward and defendant,…