#### STATE v. M. C. WHITMAN and MYRTLE RUSSELL.

(Filed 24 December, 1920.)

Appeal by defendants from Lane, J., at tbe September Term, 1920,» of BowaN.

Tbe defendants were convicted of tbe crime of fornication and adultery and appealed from tbe judgment pronounced on tbe verdict.

Tbe exception relied on is to tbe refusal to nonsuit.

Attorney-General Manning and Assistant Attorney-General Nash for the State.

Maness■ & Armfield, Whitehead Xlutzz, Walter Woodson, and J. M. Waggoner for defendants.

Pee OueiaM.

Tbe evidence in bebalf of tbe State is mucb stronger than in S. v. Waller, 80 N. C., 401, tbe case relied on by tbe defendants, and is ample to sustain tbe verdict and tbe cross-examination of tbe defendant "Whitman shows that tbe jury made no mistake.

We see no reason for disturbing tbe verdict.

No error.