STATE v. DIXON

No. 73.

127 S.E.2d 246 (1962)

257 N.C. 653

STATE v. David Lee DIXON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 19, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberts & Stocks, by Eugene A. Smith, Greenville, for defendant, appellant.

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., James F. Bullock, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


HIGGINS, Justice.

The defendant assigns as error the refusal of the court to grant his motion for nonsuit renewed at the close of all the evidence. The motion to dismiss should have been allowed. The evidence fails to show any notice to the defendant or request for support. "In order to convict the defendant under the statute, the burden was on the State to show not only that he was the father of the child, and that he had refused or neglected to support and maintain...

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