State v. Douglas

The motions for nonsuit were properly overruled. “The principle governing this case has been decided by several adjudications on the subject by this Court. The principle is that no man by the show of violence has the right to put another in fear and thereby force him to leave a place where he has the right to be.” State v. Martin, 85 N.C. 508, 510. The evidence does not disclose whether the knife with which defendant threatened Lipinsky was open or shut, nor does it reveal that defendant actually swung the knife at the prosecuting witness. As the Court pointed out in a similar case, however,…