STATE v. DAWKINS

No. 126A81.

287 S.E.2d 885 (1982)

STATE of North Carolina v. Johnny DAWKINS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Isham B. Hudson, Jr., Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

A. Wayland Cooke, Asst. Public Defender, Greensboro, for defendant-appellant.


MITCHELL, Justice.

The question dispositive of this appeal is whether the State's evidence was sufficient to permit a rational trier of fact to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant broke into Ms. Johnson's house with the intent to commit the felony of rape therein. The only evidence relevant to the element of intent was circumstantial: the mode of dress of the defendant. The evidence that the defendant was wearing shorts, a raincoat, a knee-length...

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