State v. Bates

*581MARTIN, Justice.

The sole issue before this Court is whether the Court of Appeals properly held that the trial court did not err by denying defendant’s motions to dismiss the charge against him at the close of the state’s evidence and at the close of all the evidence. We hold that the Court of Appeals did not err and that judgment was properly entered against defendant by the trial court.

A defendant’s motion for dismissal for insufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case raises the question of whether there is substantial evidence of each essential element of the offense charged, or of a…