STATE v. LOCKLEAR

No. 7016SC166.

172 S.E.2d 924 (1970)

7 N.C. App. 493

STATE of North Carolina v. Walter Lee LOCKLEAR.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 1, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan and Staff Attorney T. Buie Costen, Raleigh, for the State.

J. H. Barrington, Jr., Lumberton, for defendant appellant.


PARKER, Judge.

Defendant contends his motion for nonsuit should have been allowed because the State failed to show any causal connection between the wreck and the injuries which caused the death of the deceased. We find no merit in this contention.

To warrant conviction in a homicide case it is, of course, necessary that the State produce evidence sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the death of the deceased proximately resulted from the...

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