ERVIN, Justice.
The prisoner was tried before Judge J. Will Pless, Jr., and a jury at the October Term, 1950, of the Superior Court of Jackson County upon an indictment charging him with the murder of one Laura Ellen Taylor. The jury returned a verdict finding the prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree, but did not recommend that his punishment should be imprisonment for life in the State's prison. G.S. § 14-17 as rewritten by Section 1 of Chapter 299...
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