State v. Buchanan

215 S.E.2d 80 (1975)

287 N.C. 408

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Claude BUCHANAN.

No. 57.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 6, 1975.

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Attys. Gen. William B. Ray and William W. Melvin, Raleigh, for the State.

W. R. Francis, Waynesville, for defendant-appellant.

COPELAND, Justice.

Defendant brings forward three assignments of error based on a total of three exceptions duly noted in the record.

Defendant first assigns error (Nos. 1 & 2) to the action of the trial court in denying his motion for "a directed verdict of not guilty" at the close of the State's evidence and…