STATE v. TILLMAN

No. 835.

152 S.E.2d 159 (1967)

269 N.C. 276

STATE of North Carolina v. James Hiram TILLMAN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., Harrison Lewis, Deputy Atty. Gen., Charles M. Hensey, Trial Atty., Raleigh, for the State.

Fred Darlington, III, Burlington, for defendant.


SHARP, Justice:

This appeal presents only the question whether the State's evidence is sufficient to withstand the motions for nonsuit. The State's evidence is circumstantial, but the test of its sufficiency is the same whether the evidence be circumstantial, direct, or both. State v. Bogan, 266 N.C. 99, 145 S.E.2d 374. "[I]f there be any evidence tending...

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