State v. Joyner

EXUM, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error various rulings on the admission and exclusion of evidence, the denial of his motion to dismiss for insufficiency of evidence, and portions of the court’s charge to the jury. For reasons stated in the opinion, we find that defendant’s trial was free from prejudicial error.

Evidence for the state tended to show the following: At approximately 4:42 a.m. on 22 April 1979, Helen Young was awakened in her apartment in High Point, North Carolina, by a black male wearing a toboggan and a jogging suit. Ms. Young testified that the man had an object in his hand…