State v. Dellinger

EXUM, Justice.

In this appeal defendant’s assignments of error relate to the Speedy Trial Act, a motion for change of venue, admission of evidence and sufficiency of the evidence. We find no merit in any of the assignments and uphold the judgment of the trial court.

The state’s evidence tends to show:

On 22 January 1970 the victim, John LaFayette Marlowe, age 69, was living alone in a house in a rural section of Catawba County. In the early evening of that day he left a friend’s garage, intending to go to his home several hundred feet away. Early the next morning, Marlowe’s dead body was found…