State v. Cronin

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

Defendant first assigns as error the trial court’s failuré to dismiss the charges against him. Defendant contends that the court should have allowed his motion made at the close of the State’s evidence to dismiss the bill of indictment for failure to charge every essential element of the offense of obtaining property by false pretenses.

Initially, we note that since defendant contended that the bill of indictment failed to charge an offense, he should have moved to dismiss pursuant to G.S. 15A-954(a)(10) which by virtue of the provisions of G.S. 15A-952(d) may be made at…