(DOWNLOAD) "Peel v. Calais" by Supreme Court of North Carolina # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Peel v. Calais
- Author : Supreme Court of North Carolina
- Release Date : January 20, 1944
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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The defendant and the deceased, his wife, prior to 5 November, 1955, lived in a rural section of Burke County. At about 8:30 on the morning of that day the States witness Coleman went to the house where he found the defendant dressed and in the kitchen. The body of his wife was lying on her back in the bathroom near a pool of blood. The coroner, a physician, performed an autopsy and expressed the opinion that death resulted from "extensive bleeding in the chest cavity and on the outside tissue of the brain -- produced by blunt force and blows about the face, head, and chest." The coroner performed the autopsy at about one oclock in the afternoon of 5 November. He expressed the opinion the wounds could have been inflicted about 10 or 12 hours prior to the autopsy. Blood was discovered in several places in the house, and on the inside of the basement door "blood extended three and one-half feet up on the door." On the defendants upper cheek was an abrased area and three distinct marks downward approximately one-third of an inch apart on the left cheek. When examined at about 3:30 p.m. on the day the body was found, the defendant was wearing a cotton shirt and trousers, and a pair of low-quarter
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