State v. Williams

This is the same case that was before us at the Fall Term, 1941, reported in 220 N. C., 445, 17 S. E. (2d), 769, with ample reference to pertinent statutes and full statement of the facts, to which reference may be had to avoid repetition.

The short and simple facts upon which the case was made to turn in the court below are these: For many years the defendants lived with their respective spouses in the village of Granite Falls, Caldwell County, this State. The feme defendant’s husband worked in the store of the male defendant. The defendants disappeared from their respective homes on 7 May,…