State v. Joyner

HILL, Judge.

Defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion for a directed verdict at the close of the State’s evidence. Defendant argues that since the rifle was found unloaded and missing a firing pin, the State failed to prove the rifle allegedly used in the commission of the robbery was a firearm. We hold that defendant’s evidence did not preclude the finding that defendant perpetrated a robbery with a firearm.

Defendant was convicted of armed robbery in violation of G.S. 14-87(a) which provides in pertinent part as follows:

Any person . . . who, having in…