State v. Hall
Supreme Court of North Carolina
19 S.E. 602 (1894)
Hall and Dockery (defendants), North Carolina residents, shot and killed Andrew Bryson while they stood in North Carolina and Bryson stood across the border in Tennessee. Hall was charged as a principal and Dockery as an accessory in North Carolina; both requested jury instructions that they could not be guilty if the killing and death occurred in North Carolina, or alternatively that they could not be guilty if they were in North Carolina while Bryson was in Tennessee at the time. The trial court refused these instructions, and Hall and Dockery were convicted and appealed.
Whether, if an individual standing in North Carolina shoots and kills another individual standing in a different state, the North Carolina resident may only be charged with a crime in that other state.