State v. . Walker
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Carr, J., at November Term, 1945, of HARNETT. Criminal prosecution tried upon an indictment charging the defendant with rape. The evidence tends to show that the prosecuting witness, a 13-year-old girl, left her home on Sunday morning, 22 July, 1945, with her father and brother. She carried a small pail with her so she could pick some grapes. After picking the grapes, her father and brother went for a walk, and she started to return home.
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Appeal by defendant from Carr, J., at November Term, 1945, of HARNETT. Criminal prosecution tried upon an indictment charging the defendant with rape. The evidence tends to show that the prosecuting witness, a 13-year-old girl, left her home on Sunday morning, 22 July, 1945, with her father and brother. She carried a small pail with her so she could pick some grapes. After picking the grapes, her father and brother went for a walk, and she started to return home. Before she reached home, the defendant stopped her and forced her to accompany him in the woods. There the defendant, by the use of…
1Opinion of the CourtDenny, J.
The defendant excepts and assigns as error the refusal of his Honor to sustain his motion for judgment as of nonsuit, lodged at the close of the State’s evidence and renewed at the close of all the evidence. The exception cannot be sustained. The evidence disclosed on the record is ample to carry the case to the jury. S. v. Jackson, 199 N. C., 321, 154 S. E., 402.
The appellant also excepts and assigns as error, the admission of certain testimony on behalf of the State, by Mr. Salmon, Sheriff of Harnett County, over the objection of the defendant, on the ground that the testimony was hearsay…
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