STATE v. CARTER

No. 8319SC65.

311 S.E.2d 305 (1984)

STATE of North Carolina v. Johnny Wayne CARTER.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Wilson Hayman, Raleigh, for the State.

Nancy C. Northcott, Concord, for defendant-appellant.


JOHNSON, Judge.

Defendant first assigns error to the court's failure to grant his motion to dismiss. He argues that the jury had to infer his actual possession of the tractor from its presence on his property and then infer his guilt from this recent possession. Defendant maintains that under the rule of State v. Voncannon, 302 N.C. 619, 276 S.E.2d 370 (1981) and State v. Maines, 301 N.C. 669, 273...

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