State v. Moore

Defendant’s assignments of error 1 and 2 are that the court erred in overruling his motions for nonsuit. In his brief he argues that the court should have entered “a judgment of nonsuit as to the offenses of first and second degree murder.”

Evidence for the State tended to show: On 7 March 1968, defendant and Joanne Woolard Moore (Joanne) had been married nine years; they had three children, aged 6 years, 4 years, and 14 months. The family was living in a trailer about 200 yards from the home of Joanne’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Woolard. The two older children spent the night of 6 March 1968…