"It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut."
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State v. Beal, 199 N.C. 278 (1930).
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Walter P. Stacy
Walter Parker Stacy (born December 26, 1884 in Ansonville, North Carolina; died September 13, 1951) was chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1925 until his death in 1951.
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