In re the Will of Penley

WELLS, Judge.

Propounders’ principal assignment of error goes to the trial court’s denial of their motion for directed verdict. They argue that caveators did not offer a sufficient writing under the statute to be subject to probate. We disagree. A holographic will is one that (1) is entirely in the testator’s own handwriting, (2) bears the testator’s name in his own handwriting, and (3) was found among the testator’s valuables. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 31-3.4 (1984). Such a writing may be offered for probate only upon the testimony of at least one witness that it was found among the testator’s…