State v. Crawford
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Johnston, J., 4 February 1963 Session oi Foesyth. Gmmioml prosecution on indictment charging the defendant with murder in itftie first degree. Plea: Not .guilty. Verdict: Guilty of murder in tire first degree as charged' in ’tibe bill of indictment. From a judgment of death by asphyxiation, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
The record discloses that the State .introduced evidence as follows: On Sunday, 18 November 1962 Sandra Denise Marshall, a Negro, girl bom 14 August 1954, was living with her mother Vera Sanders in a house .at 1203 Free Street in, the Happy Hill Garden section oif the city of Winisbon-Salem. Defendant Marion, Frank Crawford, a Negro man .bom on 10 June 1936, lived in .a house on Willow Street, which is hack of the honse .where Vera Sanders and her daughter lived. Vera Sanders knew .the defendant by the name of Willie. Sandra and other children in the neighborhood called him Uncle Willie.
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