State v. Calloway

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

Defendant first assigns as error the trial judge’s denial of his motion for directed verdicts made at the close of the State’s evidence and at the close of all the evidence. He argues that there was not sufficient evidence of premeditation and deliberation to carry the case to the jury on the charge of first-degree murder.

When defendant elected to offer evidence after the denial of his motion to dismiss at the close of the State’s evidence, he waived his motion to dismiss at the close of the State’s evidence. We therefore only consider his motion to dismiss made at the…