STATE v. THOMAS

No. 657.

85 S.E.2d 300 (1955)

241 N.C. 337

STATE v. LeRoy THOMAS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 14, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. L. Alston, Jr., Greensboro, for defendant, appellant.

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


PARKER, Justice.

The defendant has two assignments of error, which pose two questions for decision. One. Was an alleged confession made by the defendant properly admitted in evidence? Two. Should his motion for judgment of nonsuit made at the conclusion of the State's evidence—the defendant introduced no evidence—have been allowed?

First, The Voluntariness of the Defendant's Confession.

Thurman Jones, a deputy sheriff...

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