State v. Brown

This appeal presents in the main two questions:

1. Is the evidence offered upon the trial in Superior Court, when considered in the light most favorable to the State, giving to the State the benefit of every reasonable intendment thereon, and every reasonable inference therefrom, as is done in testing its probative value on motion to nonsuit, sufficient to take the case to the jury on the first degree murder charge in compliance with the statute G.S. 14-17?

In this connection it is appropriate to recur to applicable principles of law.

In S. v. Hawkins, 214 N.C. 326, 199 S.E. 284, the principles…