State v. Needham

The crucial exception presented by this appeal tests the sufficiency of the evidence to carry the case to the jury over the defendant’s motions for judgment as of nonsuit, made in apt time under the provisions of G.S. 15-173.

The gist of the State’s case as gleaned from the testimony of the witnesses called by the Solicitor is in substance as follows :

For eight years or more the defendant, father of nine children, had been engaged in illicit relations with the wife of the deceased, mother of four children. The defendant began visiting the Lawson home when the family lived on the Napier farm…