State v. Sawyer

HEDRICK, Judge.

This appeal presents the single question of whether the evidence was sufficient to require submission of the case to the jury and to support the verdict. The defendant offered no evidence. Evidence offered by the State tended to show the following :

George Clafton Williams was a commercial fisherman living in Sladesville, North Carolina. On 1 March 1975, at about 3:00 p.m., he and Murphis Credle were at a dock off River Shore Road, where Williams kept his boat, preparing to go out and pull in some nets that Williams had set earlier in the day. The defendant drove up in his truck…