State v. Myrick

EXUM, Justice.

Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the state’s evidence to support his conviction of felonious breaking and the adequacy of the trial court’s instructions to the jury. We conclude that the trial court properly denied defendant’s motion to dismiss for evidentiary insufficiency and that the jury was adequately instructed.

The state’s evidence at trial tended to show the following:

Arthur Glidden managed the Ocean Islands Gas and Grill, Inc. in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. On 6 March 1979 defend ant was helping Glidden lock up the store at 10 p.m. Although defendant was not…