STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 266.

142 S.E.2d 151 (1965)

264 N.C. 598

STATE of North Carolina v. James JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 2, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton, Deputy Atty. Gen. Ralph Moody, and Asst. Atty. Gen. Richard T. Sanders for the State.

Franklin R. Brown, Tarboro, for defendant.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant contends the court erred in overruling his motion for nonsuit.

The State's evidence tends to show: Defendant and his wife, Ella Johnson, had separated. On 16 January 1964 Ella went to their former home to get some personal belongings. She knocked on the door and defendant let her in; he took a skeleton key from his pocket and locked the door behind her. Everything she picked up to take with her "he would make" her put down. He had a knife...

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