State v. Williams

BECTON, Judge.

I

Defendant states his first argument thusly: “The trial court erred in denying defendant’s motions to dismiss the charges because there was not sufficient evidence from which a rational trier of fact could find beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant was the person who committed the offenses.”

In order for the evidence to support the charge, there must be “substantial evidence ... of every essential element that goes to make up the crime charged,” State v. Allred, 279 *206N.C. 398, 404, 183 S.E. 2d 553, 557 (1971), or evidence from which a rational jury may find beyond a doubt the…