State v. Johnson

BRYANT, Judge.

Where the trial court's instruction was given in conformity with the pattern jury instructions for felonious conspiracy and where the intended victim of a robbery with a dangerous weapon is not an essential element of the crime of conspiracy to commit the same, we hold that there was no error, let alone plain error, in the trial court's jury charge or in the trial court's denial of defendant's oral request for jury instructions.

On the night of 24 January 2015, Eric McCormick's roommate called him and asked if McCormick would drive his cousin from Bunnlevel to Raleigh. McCormick…