State v. Van Landingham

SHARP, Justice.

Defendant’s first two assignments of error are that the court erred in denying her motion for nonsuit as to the charge of first degree murder and each of the lesser degrees of homicide included in that charge. Defendant offered no evidence. The State’s evidence tended to show:

Dr. Mclnnis, a Raleigh pediatrician who raised horses, lived on her farm a short distance north of Raleigh. Her residence, directly across Six Forks Road from the Bayleaf Baptist Church, was in a grove about 100 feet from the west side of the road. Since 1965 defendant, Mrs. Van Landingham, had lived on…