State v. . Spruill

The appellant assigns as error the denial of his motion for judgment as of nonsuit, entered at the close of the State’s evidence and renewed at the close of all the evidence.

The facts as disclosed by the record may be briefly summarized as follows :

The deceased Luther McClees, riding with others in a cart on the road near the town of Columbia, North Carolina, was struck by a motor truck and received injuries from which he shortly thereafter died. There was circumstantial evidence tending to show that the truck involved in the collision belonged to defendant Spruill, that it was at the time…