STATE v. NEEDHAM

No. 4.

71 S.E.2d 29 (1952)

235 N.C. 555

STATE v. NEEDHAM.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 21, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Charles G. Powell, Jr., Member of Staff, Raleigh, for the State.

Woltz & Barber and Folger & Folger, all of Mount Airy, for defendant, appellant.


JOHNSON, Justice.

The crucial exception presented by this appeal tests the sufficiency of the evidence to carry the case to the jury over the defendant's motions for judgment as of nonsuit, made in apt time under the provisions of G.S. § 15-173.

The gist of the State's case as gleaned from the testimony of the witnesses called by the Solicitor is in substance as follows:

For eight years or more the defendant, father of nine children, had been...

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