I. The appellants assign as error the refusal of the trial judge to charge the jury that the defendants were not guilty of murder in the first degree, on the ground that there was no evidence of deliberation and premeditation. This requires an examination of the testimony adduced at the trial to determine whether there was evidence sufficient to be submitted to the jury upon the question of first degree murder.
That the deceased came to his death by reason- of a stab wound inflicted by one of the defendants was admitted on all sides, and there was ample evidence that both defendants were present at the time and acting in concert. Deceased died a few hours after having been stabbed.
*22Tbe State’s evidence tended to show tbat tbe homicide occurred at tbe borne of tbe deceased, and tbat tbe fatal wound was given following an altercation and difficulty between tbe deceased and tbe defendants. There was some evidence tbat tbe quarrel' arose in consequence of a dispute over a gambling game, or from a difficulty about tbe possession of a coin.
There was also evidence for tbe State tbat on tbe evening of tbe homicide defendant Bell came to tbe borne of tbe deceased and after an altercation about tbe return of some furniture which deceased bad taken from tbe borne of defendant Bell, Bell left and came back two hours later with defendant Rodman, and tbat tbe difficulty shortly ensued; tbat tbe two -defendants bad deceased hemmed in a corner of tbe room, and both bad bold of him at tbe time tbe fatal cutting was done. “They were bolding him and trying to make him pay them some money;” tbat three other occupants of tbe room ran out, and a witness in tbe alley beard deceased “hollering and saying, ‘Don’t cut me no more.’ ” Tbe State also offered evidence tending to show tbat shortly after tbe cutting defendants pulled deceased out on tbe porch and on tbe ground, and dragged and kicked and beat him with a piece of iron in spite of bis cries and groans, and tbat after tbe defendants bad gone out under tbe street light defendant Rodman was beard to say to defendant Bell, “Let’s go back and finish killing him.”
While there was evidence on behalf of tbe defendants, and permissible inferences from tbe testimony of other witnesses, tbat tbe homicide occurred under such circumstances as to constitute murder in tbe second degree, or manslaughter, or excusable homicide (all of which phases of tbe case were submitted to tbe jury in a charge free from error), we conclude there was evidence sufficient to be submitted to tbe jury tbat tbe killing was willful, deliberate, and premeditated, under tbe rule laid down in many authoritative decisions of this Court. S. v. McCormac, 116 N. C., 1033; S. v. Lipscomb, 134 N. C., 689; S. v. Roberson, 150 N. C., 837; S. v. Daniels, 164 N. C., 464; S. v. Walker, 173 N. C., 780; S. v. Benson, 183 N. C., 795; S. v. Miller, 197 N. C., 445; S. v. Evans, 198 N. C., 82; S. v. Buffkin, 209 N. C., 117.
It was said in S. v. Johnson, 199 N. C., 429: “Tbe general rule is tbat, if there be any evidence tending to prove tbe fact in issue, or which reasonably conduces to its conclusion as a fairly logical and legitimate deduction, and not merely such as raises a suspicion or conjecture in regard to it, the case should be submitted to tbe jury.” And in S. v. Buffkin, supra, it was said: “In determining tbe question of premeditation and deliberation, it is proper for tbe jury to take into consideration tbe conduct of tbe defendant, before and after, and all attendant circumstances, and it is immaterial bow soon after resolving to kill tbe defendant carried bis purpose into execution.”
*23II. There was no error in admitting in evidence the dying declaration of the deceased as testified by the witness Alligood. This declaration was preceded by the specific statement by deceased, “I am bleeding inside and I am going to die,” and was made a few hours before his death.
The testimony of the State’s witness Singleton as to declarations of the deceased, made shortly after that related by witness Alligood, was only admitted for the purpose of corroborating the declaration to which Alligood testified in so far as it did so. While this somewhat amplified the former declaration, the additional circumstance related tended to strengthen the contentions of the defendants rather than those of the State, and in no event have the defendants ground of complaint. S. v. Williams, 168 N. C., 191; S. v. Blackburn, 80 N. C., 474; S. v. Thomason, 46 N. C., 274.
III. The defendants’ motion in arrest of judgment on the ground that the defendants, as well as the deceased, being colored persons, their cause was prejudiced by reason of having been tried by a jury composed entirely of white men, cannot be sustained. The trial judge found the facts to be that the names of those qualified for jury service under the statute, which were in the jury box, embraced both white and colored jurors; that no discrimination was made between persons belonging to the white or Negro race, and that of the total number of jurors summoned in the case, the trial jurors were all accepted by the defendants and the jury duly sworn and impaneled without objection or challenge by the defendants. These findings of fact were supported by evidence and are conclusive upon defendants’ motion, made for the first time after verdict. S. v. Walls, 211 N. C., 487; S. v. Cooper, 205 N. C., 657; Thomas v. State of Texas, 212 U. S., 278.
The other exceptions entered at the trial were not brought forward in appellants’ briefs or debated on the oral argument. However, we have examined them and find that none of them can be sustained.
In the record, we find
No error.