State v. Mitchum

The crucial question on this appeal is whether the evidence was sufficient to survive the defendant’s motion for nonsuit made at the close of all the evidence.

In summary, the evidence tells the following story:

The defendant and the deceased Plarris worked in the same department on the second shift at the Marion Manufacturing Company on Baldwin Avenue in Marion. Defendant was in charge of the department. Six weeks prior to the homicide there had been trouble 'between the two men in the Mill when Harris had complained that everybody in the department was working against him and that defendant…