STATE v. LANE

No. 686SC320.

164 S.E.2d 618 (1968)

3 N.C. App. 353

STATE of North Carolina v. Melvin LANE.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 31, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton and Staff Atty., Christine Y. Denson, Raleigh, for the State.

Jones, Jones & Jones by Joseph J. Flythe, Ahoskie, for defendant appellant.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

The defendant assigns as error (1) the failure of the trial court to sustain the motion for judgment as of nonsuit and to dismiss the action and (2) the charge of the trial court.

The defendant contends that the motion for judgment as of nonsuit should have been sustained because all of the evidence tends to show that the death was accidental. He argues that where the State relies upon a statement made by the defendant, which statement tends...

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