State v. Haywood

EXUM, Justice.

The principal question presented by this appeal, and the one over which the panel below disagreed, is whether the trial judge properly denied defendant’s motion to dismiss at the close of all the evidence. Upon careful examination of the record, we con- elude there is substantial evidence of each element of the offense of feloniously receiving stolen goods. Defendant’s motion was therefore properly denied.

The state’s evidence tended to show that in the early months of 1977 police officers in Greensboro were running an undercover operation for the purpose of recovering stolen…