State v. Little

The defendant did not offer any evidence. He assigns as error the denial of his motion for judgment of compulsory nonsuit made at the close of the State’s evidence.

The State offered three witnesses: J. B. Herbert, a State ABC officer; Joseph Kopka, an investigator for the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit, United States Treasury Department; and Alfred Joyner, a Nash County ABC officer. A summary of the State's evidence is as follows: About 5 a.m. on 3 May 1965 Deleon Battle, Charles Sidney Langley, and defendant Walter Lee Little were seen at a small shed approximately 1,000 yards from a still…