State v. . Edwards

At the May Criminal Term, 1933, Mecklenburg Superior Court, the appellant herein, John Lewis Edwards, and another, were tried, upon an indictment charging them with the murder of one J. W. Brown, which resulted in, a conviction and sentence of death of appellant, and an acquittal and discharge of his codefendant.

From the judgment of death entered against the defendant, John Lewis Edwards, it is suggested that he gave notice of appeal to the Supreme Court, though no entries of appeal appear thereon or in the clerk’s certificate.

It was said in Spence v. Tapscott, 92 N. C., 576 (as stated in the…