State v. Hurley

STEELMAN, Judge.

Defendant asserts that his admitted act of larceny was either abandoned or completed prior to brandishing a knife and threatening a store employee, and therefore he was improperly convicted of robbery with a dangerous weapon. For the reasons set forth in this opinion, we hold that defendant received a fair trial, free from error.

The State’s evidence tended to show that on 14 July 2004 defendant was in the Lowe’s store in Goldsboro, N.C. The store’s district loss prevention manager, Carl Hawkins, observed defendant place a chainsaw in a shopping cart and push it toward the…