State v. Russell

MARTIN (Robert M.), Judge.

Defendant alleges in her first assignment of error that the trial court erred in allowing certain, testimony concerning the “acts or declarations” of an alleged co-conspirator and in her fourth assignment that the court erred in denying defendant’s motion to dismiss at the close of the State’s evidence. Considering these arguments together, we disagree.

According to the general rule, when the State has introduced prima facie evidence of a conspiracy, the acts and declarations of each party to it in furtherance of its objectives are admissible against the other…