{
  "id": 8623557,
  "name": "STATE v. RICHARD HORTON",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Horton",
  "decision_date": "1947-03-19",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "250",
  "last_page": "250",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "227 N.C. 250"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T16:20:04.384970+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "STATE v. RICHARD HORTON."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Stacy, C. J.\nThe deceased was a taxi-driver. On the night of 26 October, 1946, he was engaged by the defendant to drive him from North Wilkesboro to Miller\u2019s Creek, a distance of about fifteen miles. While on this trip, the defendant slew the deceased, took his car and drove it to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he was apprehended. The defendant, in a signed confession, admitted that he shot the deceased and took his automobile. He interposed the defense of mental irresponsibility. The jury has resolved this against him.\nA careful perusal of the record fails to disclose any valid exceptive assignment of error. The verdict and judgment will be upheld.\nNo error.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Stacy, C. J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorneys-General Bruton, Rhodes, and Moody for the State.",
      "P. J. McDuffie for the defendant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE v. RICHARD HORTON.\n(Filed 19 March, 1947.)\nAppeal by defendant from Pittman, J., at December Term, 1946, of Wilices.\nCriminal prosecution on indictment charging the defendant with the murder of one Francis Baker.\nVerdict: \u201cGuilty of murder in the first degree.\u201d\nJudgment: Death by asphyxiation.\nThe defendant appeals, assigning errors.\nAttorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorneys-General Bruton, Rhodes, and Moody for the State.\nP. J. McDuffie for the defendant."
  },
  "file_name": "0250-01",
  "first_page_order": 298,
  "last_page_order": 298
}