STATE v. COPE

No. 505.

81 S.E.2d 773 (1954)

240 N.C. 244

STATE v. COPE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., T. W. Bruton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gerald F. White, Raleigh, Member of Staff, for the State.

Mullen, Holland & Cooke, Gastonia, for defendant appellant


DENNY, Justice.

The defendant assigns as error the refusal of the court below to sustain his motion for judgment as of nonsuit, interposed at the close of the State's evidence, as to both charges, and renewed at the close of all the evidence. This assignment raises two questions. (1) Is a naked extrajudicial confession, uncorroborated by any other evidence, sufficient to sustain a conviction of a felony? (2) When in the course of a trial a witness testifies to facts...

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