State v. Barrow

HUSKINS, Justice.

Defendant first assigns as error the failure of the trial court to grant her motion for “judgment of acquittal” at the end of the State’s evidence and at the conclusion of all the evidence.

Although we are unable to find mention of such a motion in our criminal procedure, it is apparent that defendant is attacking the sufficiency of the evidence to go to the jury. Therefore, for purposes of this appeal, defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal — like a motion for “a directed verdict of not guilty,” State v. Holton, 284 N.C. 391, 200 S.E. 2d 612 (1973) — will be treated as…