Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1922

Justice Stacy dissents, arguing that the trial court erred in arresting the judgment against Garland Haney despite a jury verdict of guilty manslaughter, and that no error existed in Pearl Hall's conviction.

The Supreme Court of North Carolina affirmed that the State’s evidentiary rulings on intoxication, the number of shots fired, and the deputy sheriff’s dying declaration were proper, held that the trial judge’s refusal to admit a written dying declaration was harmless error, and reversed the trial court’s arrest of…