Legal Opinion
State v. McCall
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided March 12, 1975No. 32PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COPELAND, Justice.
Defendant assigns as error the denial of his motion for judgment as in case of nonsuit. G.S. 15-173. The question pre sented by this assignment is whether the evidence was sufficient to warrant the submission thereof to the jury and to support verdicts of guilty of the criminal offenses charged in the first-degree murder indictments.
The rules for testing the sufficiency of the evidence to withstand defendant’s motion are well estalished. “Motion to nonsuit requires the trial judge to consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, take it as true, and give…
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