STATE v. KELLY

No. 292.

90 S.E.2d 241 (1955)

243 N.C. 177

STATE v. James R. KELLY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Peacock and Edmundson & Edmundson, Goldsboro, for defendant, appellant.

William B. Rodman, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Claude L. Love, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PARKER, Justice.

The defendant offered no evidence. The only assignment of error, except formal ones, is to the failure of the court to sustain the motion for judgment of nonsuit.

Robert Robinson, 27 years old, was a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg. He had been married about 4 years to Brookie Overton. They lived at Mt. Olive in the home of her mother and minor brothers.

After Robert Robinson's murder the defendant Kelly told John B. Edwards, a member...

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