State v. Sinclair

HEDRICK, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the denial of her motion for judgment as of nonsuit. Such a motion challenges the sufficiency of the State’s evidence for submission to the jury and requires the court to determine whether there is any competent evidence to sustain the allegations of the indictment. State v. Stewart, 292 N.C. 219, 232 S.E. 2d 443 (1977); State v. Murdock, 225 N.C. 224, 34 S.E. 2d 69 (1945). In making that determination, the court must consider the evidence “in the light most favorable to the State, all contradictions and discrepancies therein must be resolved in its…