STATE v. HUMPHREY

No. 655.

73 S.E.2d 479 (1952)

236 N.C. 608

STATE v. HUMPHREY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 10, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Robert L. Emanuel, Member of Staff, Raleigh, for State.

F. D. Hackett, Jr., Lumberton, for defendant, appellant.


DEVIN, Chief Justice.

The defendant assigns error in the refusal of the trial court to allow his motion for judgment of nonsuit, chiefly on the ground that the State's evidence failed to show that before the issuance of the warrant the defendant after notice and demand wilfully failed and refused to support and maintain the child.

But we think the evidence sufficient to carry the case to the jury. The testimony of the child's mother tended to show not only...

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