STATE v. MARSH

No. 1.

66 S.E.2d 684 (1951)

234 N.C. 101

STATE v. MARSH.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 19, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry M. McMullan, Atty. Gen. and Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Charles M. Neaves, Elkin and E. C. Bivens, Mount Airy, for defendant.


STACY, Chief Justice (after stating the facts as above).

The defendant states in his confession that, with axe in hand, he pursued Allen Phillips over the snow-covered pasture, across a barbed wire fence, overtook him in the road leading to the barn, struck him a lethal blow on the head with the axe, felled and silenced him, robbed him and left him for dead. These facts alone, if true, and the jury has accepted them as such, render the legal questions debated on brief...

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