State v. Beasley

Each defendant presents as his first assignment of error the denial by the court of their respective motions for nonsuit made at the close of the State’s evidence and again at the close of all of the evidence. Their argument is that there is not substantial evidence of each of the elements of the offense of malicious maiming, with or without malice aforethought. And Ernest Beasley, Sr., argues further that the State failed to offer evidence that he maimed or aided and abetted in maiming.

*329An examination of the composite of the North Carolina opinions dealing with the offense of maiming…