State v. Hawley

HEDRICK, Judge.

Defendants assign as error the court’s failure to grant their timely motions for judgment as of nonsuit and for “judgment notwithstanding the verdict.” In ruling upon a defendant’s motion to dismiss or for judgment as in the case of nonsuit, the trial court is limited solely to the function of determining whether a reasonable inference of the defendant’s guilt of the crime may be drawn from the evidence. State v. Smith, 40 N.C. App. 72, 252 S.E. 2d 535 (1979). The evidence in the present case was sufficient to enable the jury to draw a reasonable inference that the defendants…