The Supreme Court of North Carolina has upheld a conviction for murder in the second degree in a case apparently unparalleled in criminal history.
The defendant, one Ves Wingler, married Candace Miller in 1891, and went with her to a cabin in the mountains " 17 or 18 miles from North Wilkesboro, N. C." In May, 1893, she met a violent death. Her husband was the sole witness. On his testimony the coroner's jury brought in a verdict of accidental death, caused by a fall from a loft in the cabin onto the stone...
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