State v. . Bridgers
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Lyon, J., at March Term, 1916, of Edgecombe. The prisoner was charged with having murdered Easter Grimes on 2 January, 1916. There was a verdict of murder in the second degree and a sentence of twenty years in the State Prison, from which judgment the prisoner .appealed.
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INDICTMENT for murder, tried before Lyon, J., at March Term, 1916, of Edgecombe. The prisoner was charged with having murdered Easter Grimes on 2 January, 1916. There was a verdict of murder in the second degree and a sentence of twenty years in the State Prison, from which judgment the prisoner .appealed. There was a motion for judgment of nonsuit when the State rested, and again at the close of all the testimony, and the only question presented for) review is raised by the exceptions to the denial of those motions. The deceased disappeared on the first Sunday or Monday in January, 1916, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating tbe ease: There is but a single point for us to decide in this case, and that is whether there is any evidence, even a scintilla, of the prisoner’s guilt. This is sometimes, and, we may say, quite often, a difficult question to answer, the difference between some evidence, though slight, and no evidence, requiring in many instances very fine discrimination. "We may say with certainty that evidence which merely shows it possible for the fact in issue to be as alleged, or which raises a mere conjecture that it is so, is an insufficient foundation for a verdict, and…
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