State v. . Bowman
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Murder removed from Guilford and tried at Fall Term, 1878, of Randoph Superior Court, before Kerr, J.. The prisoner was charged with killing his wife by administering poison.
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INDICTMENT for Murder removed from Guilford and tried at Fall Term, 1878, of Randoph Superior Court, before Kerr, J.. The prisoner was charged with killing his wife by administering poison. The evidence in support of the charge was-circumstantial, and only that part as was deemed material, to the exceptions taken is incorporated in the statement of the case sent to this court; and that which is deemed sufficient to an understanding of the opinion is as follows:. Martha Cole, a witness for the state, testified in the course of her examination that about two hours, after the death of Mrs.…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
The record and statement of the case are quite voluminous, but it is only necessary to notice so much thereof as is pertinent to the instructions prayed for and the exceptions taken by the prisoner.
First, as to the special instructions asked :—
1. “That the burden of proof was on the state, and that the state must prove the prisoner to be guilty to the satisfaction of the jury beyond a reasonable doubt, or else the prisoner was entitled to an acquittal.” This was given, and His Honor committed no error in superadding thereto, “that when the act of killing a human being wilfully is fully…
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