STATE v. CRANFORD

No. 508.

56 S.E.2d 423 (1949)

231 N.C. 211

STATE v. CRANFORD et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 30, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney-General Harry M. McMullan, and Assistant Attorney-General T. W. Bruton, for the State.

Elbert E. Foster and J. F. Flowers, Charlotte, for defendant.


STACY, Chief Justice.

Undoubtedly the record points an accusing finger at the appealing defendant as one of the participants in the crime here charged. But this would seem to be all. A careful scrutiny of the evidence leaves us with the impression that it falls short of the degree of proof required to convict a defendant in a criminal prosecution. It all may be true, and yet the appealing defendant may be innocent. State v. Goodson, 107 N.C. 798, 12 S.E. 329; State...

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