State v. Harrell

BROCK, Chief Judge.

Defendant’s first assignment of error is addressed to the failure of the trial court to grant defendant’s motion to dismiss made at the close of all the evidence. Defendant contends the evidence offered by the State was insufficient to require submission to the jury of the case.

The State presented a logical sequence of events and testimony which tended to show motive on the part of defendant to burn the building, a discussion as to how the burning could be accomplished less than three weeks before the fire, an offer of money to Rawls to burn the store, and that defendant…