State v. Maines

MARTIN (Robert M.), Judge.

Defendants argue the court erred in denying their motions to dismiss at the close of the evidence.

The State relied on the doctrine of possession of recently stolen property. Possession .of stolen property shortly after the *168time of the theft raises an inference of the possessor’s guilt of the larceny as well as of the breaking and entering necessary to gain access to the property, which is then submitted to the jury along with other evidence for its determination of guilt. State v. Fair, 291 N.C. 171, 229 S.E. 2d 189 (1976). The circumstances under which the doctrine…