State v. Bronson

BROCK, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error that the trial court denied defendant’s motion for nonsuit at the close of State’s evidence. It is a well founded and long standing rule that in passing upon a motion for nonsuit in a criminal case, the court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the State and give the State the benefit of every reasonable inference which may be legitimately drawn therefrom. And, when so considered, if there is substantial evidence, whether direct, circumstantial, or both, of all material elements of the offense charged, then the motion for nonsuit…