STATE v. HAYWOOD

No. 83.

249 S.E.2d 429 (1978)

295 N.C. 709

STATE of North Carolina v. Paul Austin HAYWOOD, John William Brown, James Lewis Watkins and Ronald Eugene Covington.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., and George J. Oliver, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

E. C. Thompson, III, Warsaw, Atty., for John William Brown and Ronald Eugene Covington, defendants-appellants.

Russell J. Lanier, Jr., Kenansville, for Paul Austin Haywood and James Lewis Watkins, defendants-appellants.


SHARP, Chief Justice.

We examine first defendants' assignment of error No. 14, that the trial court erred in denying their respective motions for judgments as of nonsuit, made at the close of all the evidence. G.S. 15-173 (1975). We consider this assignment under the established rule that upon a motion to nonsuit the trial court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, take it as true, and give the State the benefit of every reasonable inference...

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