State v. Norris

The State introduced evidence; defendant Norris did not. He assigns as error the denial of his motion for judgment of compulsory nonsuit made at the close of the State’s evidence. The State’s evidence shows the following facts:

About 6 p.m. on 24 May 1964, Arthur Castlebury, a member of the "U. S. Navy, left his home in Charleston, South Carolina, for the purpose of hitchhiking to his ship at Norfolk, Virginia. He was picked up by drivers of automobiles three times, and arrived in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, about 9 p.m. While hitchhiking on Highway #17 just north of Myrtle Beach, he was…