State v. Rankin

LAKE, Justice.

The serious question presented by this appeal is whether the evidence for the State is sufficient to withstand this appellant’s motion for judgment of nonsuit (Assignment of Error No. 3). Like the Superior Court and the majority of the Court of Appeals, we hold that it is.

As Justice Parker, later Chief Justice, said in State v. Taft, 256 N.C. 441, 124 S.E. 2d 169, “It is thoroughly established law in this State that, without regard to any previous confederation or design, when two or more persons aid and abet each other in the commission of a crime, all being present, all are…