State v. . Terrell

A careful consideration of the record on this appeal reveals substantial error, which entitles defendant to a new trial.

The evidence for the State tends to show that: At about 8 :30 p.m., on 7 March, 1937, the defendant shot and killed Andrew Knight with a shotgun at a filling station known as “Friendly Inn,” operated by Kennon “Bad Eye” Whitt, in Warren County, about a mile -north of Norlina, and five miles from Warrenton. The defendant and Knight were brothers-in-law, defendant having married a sister of Knight. The defendant and his wife were estranged, she living in Henderson, Vance…