State v. Compton

EAGLES, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the trial court’s failure to grant his motion to dismiss at the close of all the evidence, arguing that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction.

Obtaining property by false pretenses is defined as (1) a false representation of a past or subsisting fact or a future fulfillment or event, (2) which is calculated and intended to deceive, (3) which does in fact deceive, and (4) by which the defendant obtains or attempts to obtain anything of value from another person. State v. Cronin, 299 N.C. 229, 242, 262 S.E. 2d 277, 286 (1980); G.S.…