STATE v. WOOTEN

No. 584.

79 S.E.2d 254 (1953)

239 N.C. 117

STATE v. WOOTEN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 16, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Powell & Powell, Whiteville, for the defendant, appellant.


ERVIN, Justice.

The only assignments of error requiring consideration are those based upon the disallowances of the motions of the defendant for compulsory nonsuits on both counts.

The testimony for the State is ample to show that some person violated the statutes relating to the possession of intoxicating liquor. It leaves to mere conjecture, however, the all-important question whether the culprit was the defendant or somebody else. Since the evidence does...

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