State v. Hoots
Decision Date | 18 May 1977 |
Docket Number | No. 7629SC1037,7629SC1037 |
Citation | 234 S.E.2d 764,33 N.C.App. 258 |
Court | North Carolina Court of Appeals |
Parties | STATE of North Carolina v. Roy Timothy HOOTS and Myron Bale Pace. |
Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. William H. Boone, Raleigh, for the State.
Story, Hunter & Goldsmith by C. Frank Goldsmith, Jr., Marion, for defendants-appellants.
Subsection (a) of G.S. 14-39, the kidnapping statute which became effective on 1 July 1975, provides:
Defendants contend the court erred in denying their motion for judgment as of nonsuit made at the close of the State's evidence and renewed at the close of all the evidence. We hold that the evidence was sufficient to require the submission of the cases to the jury as to these defendants on the charges of kidnapping.
Defendants excepted to and assign as error the following portions of the court's instruction to the jury:
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