State v. Ellis

ERVIN, Justice.

Defendant Dwayne Anthony Ellis was convicted of felonious larceny, injury to personal property causing damage in excess of $200.00, first degree trespass, and misdemeanor possession of stolen property. A unanimous panel of the Court of Appeals vacated defendant’s injury to personal property conviction and remanded this case to the trial court for resentencing. We now reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals.

At around 4:30 a.m. on 23 April 2011, Sergeant Ian Kendrick of the North Carolina State University Police Department witnessed a vehicle with an attached trailer leaving…