State v. McDaniel

MORGAN, Justice.

**594This appeal by the State of North Carolina, which comes to this Court on the basis of a dissenting opinion which was issued in the disposition of this case by the North Carolina Court of Appeals, requires consideration of the doctrine of recent possession and its utilization here to prove the charges of breaking and entering and the charge of larceny. In the appellate court below, the majority and the dissent disagreed on **595the issue of whether the State presented sufficient evidence to establish that defendant in this case actually possessed the allegedly stolen…