State v. . Patton

The defendant assigns as error certain rulings of the court below relating to the admission of testimony, but upon examination we find the exceptions without substantial merit. The motion for judgment as of nonsuit was properly denied.

The statute for violation of which this defendant was convicted, C. S., 4310, was amended by ch. 258, Public Laws 1941, but the language defining the acts made unlawful, as charged in the warrant, was unchanged. The original statute applied only to McDowell and certain other counties. The amendment made the provisions of the act statewide, but applicable “only…