State v. Biggs

SHARP, Chief Justice.

At the outset we consider and dispose of defendant’s contention that the evidence of premeditation and deliberation was not “substantial enough” to warrant submitting the case to the jury on the charge of first degree murder. The assignment is feckless. The familiar rule is that a motion to nonsuit “requires the trial court to consider the evidence in its light most favorable to the State, take it as true, and give the State the benefit of every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom.” State v. Goines, 273 N.C. 509, 513, 160 S.E. 2d 469, 472 (1968). Furthermore, all…