State v. Roberson

PARKER, Judge.

Defendant first assigns error to the court’s denial of her motions for nonsuit. Relying on State v. Hall, 251 N.C. 211, 110 S.E. 2d 868 (1959), defendant first contends that a person may not be punished for an offense he may commit in the future. The conduct proscribed by G.S. 14-277.1, however, is the making and communicating of the threat in the manner described in the statute, with no requirement that the threat be carried out. Here, there was ample evidence from which the jury could find that the threat was made and communicated by defendant “in a manner and under…