State v. Carver

The State offered one witness, C. C. Holeman, sheriff of Person County. Defendants offered no evidence. Defendant Carver assigns as error the denial of his motion for judgment of nonsuit made at the close of the State’s case.

Sheriff Holeman testified in substance:

Paul Carver owns a lot of land located on a hard-surfaced road near the Kitten Hill Community in Person County. He lives in a house on the lot .about as far from the road as from the witness stand to the 'back of the courtroom. Behind his house he has a shop or garage with a number of tools in it where he works on automobiles. In…