State v. . Peterson

We do not deem it necessary to summarize all tbe testimony or to enter into a discussion of its probative force further than to say there was sufficient evidence offered to repel tbe motion to dismiss under G. S., 15-173.

Tbe contention that there is no competent evidence of tbe cause of death is without merit. Tbe deceased was a young man in apparent good health. He received a traumatic injury which crushed his skull and affected the brain tissue. He died almost immediately thereafter. Certainly this warrants the inference that death was caused by the crushed skull and the injured brain…