State v. Lea

The appellants assign as error the refusal of the court below to grant their motion for judgment as of nonsuit made at the close of the State’s evidence and renewed at the close of all the evidence. The State offered ample evidence to take the consolidated eases to the jury against the respective defendants, and this assignment of error is overruled.

The defendants further assign as error the court’s examination of witnesses tendered by the State as well as those tendered by the defendants.

The court interrupted the Solicitor or counsel for defendants some eight or ten times during the course…