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230 N.C. 387

53 S.E.2d 169

State v. Skipper

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1949-05-04

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1996

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Relies on State v. Frye · State v. . Frye · State v. . Massengill

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Decided 1949-05-04

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DeviN, J.

¶1The only exception brought forward in the defendant’s appeal is the denial by the trial court of his motion for judgment of nonsuit. We have hereinbefore set out a summary of the pertinent evidence, and considering this in the light most favorable to the State (S. v. Massengill, 228 N.C. 612, 41 S.E. 2d 713), we are of opinion that there was sufficient evidence, pointing to the guilt of the appealing defendant as having participated in the commission of the crime charged in the bill of indictment, to warrant submission of the case to the jury. This view is supported by what was said in the recent cases of S. v. Frye, 229 N.C. 581, 50 S.E. 2d 895; S. v. Braxton, ante, 312; and S. v. Flynn, ante, 293. The motion for judgment of nonsuit was properly denied.

¶2In the trial we find

¶3No error.

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