State v. . Bishop

CLARK and MONTGOMERY, JJ., dissenting. The prisoners are indicted for the (734) murder of Thomas Stevenson; found guilty of murder in the first degree, and are now under sentence of death. The evidence discloses the following facts:

C. T. Peele is a merchant in Bertie County, and on the morning of 9 April Joe Peele left an order at his store to let Jim Stevenson have twenty pounds of meat and a sack of meal; that evening about 4 or 5 o'clock Peele's wagon drove up to the store with the prisoners in it. Melton Belfield, it seems, came up about the same time. It seems that they had been to some…