State v. Dix

BRITT, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial court to allow his timely made motions for nonsuit of the charge of kidnapping.

The evidence presented at trial tended to show: On 19 April 1970 at about 1:30 a.m. defendant knocked on the front door of the Rockingham County jail. The assistant jailer, Henry C. Crowder, came out of the jailer’s office, unlocked an iron door, entered the vestibule or waiting room of the jail, and opened the front door. Defendant stuck a gun in Crowder’s face and told him he would kill him if Crowder didn’t let defendant’s buddies out of jail.…