State v. Chavis

Tbis case portrays an atrocious crime, and careful consideration of the assignments of error presented by defendants fails to reveal error for which the judgment from which appeal is taken should be disturbed. However, we advert to and treat specifically the main exceptions.

I. Assignments of error Nos. 10 and 11, covering Exceptions Nos. 14 and 15, relate to the ruling of the trial court in denying defendants’ motions, aptly made, for judgment as of nonsuit as to murder in the first degree.

Murder in the first degree is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice and with premeditation…