State v. Hope

MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of robbery with firearms or other dangerous weapons (armed robbery) upon a proper indictment and was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years by Barnette, J., on 24 May 1984 in Superior Court, SCOTLAND County. The defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals.

The majority of the panel in the Court of Appeals concluded that the evidence was insufficient to support a finding of the element of taking by the use or threatened use of a dangerous weap on. It viewed the taking in the present case as a discrete event that was completed…