State v. Griffin

BRETT, Judge.

Defendant first assigns as error the failure of the trial court to sustain her motions for nonsuit. She contends that since “all of the evidence introduced by the State was circumstantial in nature” and that such evidence “must establish facts so connected and related as to point unerringly to defendant’s guilt and exclude any other reasonable hypothesis,” the trial court erred in denying her nonsuit motion.

A like contention was rejected in State v. Stephens, 244 N.C. 380, 93 S.E. 2d 431 (1956). We quote from the opinion by Justice Higgins, pp. 383-384:

“Admittedly, this is a case…