{
  "id": 11298897,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. AMOS STANLEY BOYKINS",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Boykins",
  "decision_date": "1974-06-05",
  "docket_number": "No. 747SC126",
  "first_page": "34",
  "last_page": "36",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "judges": [
      "Judges Parker and Baley concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. AMOS STANLEY BOYKINS"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "BROCK, Chief Judge.\nDefendant assigns as error that the trial court denied defendant\u2019s motion for compulsory nonsuit. The sole question raised by this assignment of error is whether there is substantial evidence of all material elements of the offense charged. In considering the motion for nonsuit, all of the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the State. When so viewed, the evidence tends to show the following:\nOn 29 May 1970, Mr. Edward Thompson (Thompson) owned a Farmall 140 tractor and equipment. The tractor and equipment were located on a small farm owned by Thompson in Nash County, about a mile from where Thompson lived in Wilson County. After using the tractor on 29 May 1970, Thompson parked it under a shelter for the night. About 3:00 a.m. of 30 May 1970, Mr. Eugene Patterson (Patterson) was driving past Thompson\u2019s farm and observed a 1959 Chevrolet truck, color white over turquoise over white, with its rear wheels in the roadside ditch and front wheels on the edge of the pavement. Patterson saw two men and a tractor on the bed of the truck. When Thompson went to his shelter on the morning of 30 May 1970, the Farmall 140 tractor and equipment were missing. Thompson did not give anyone permission to move his tractor and equipment. The tractor and equipment were of a value of $1200.00.\nThompson immediately notified Deputy Pridgen who conducted an investigation at the site. The deputy found tire tracks in the roadside ditch and impressions of a bumper against the ditch bank. The deputy found tractor tracks where it had \u201cgone up on the truck,\u201d an oak board about 2x8x10, and a pine board \u201clying there.\u201d He also found a piece of angle iron which he later determined to be similar to a piece of angle iron missing from the rear of a 1959 Chevrolet truck, color white over turquoise over white, which had been abandoned by defendant.\nIn May 1970, defendant was sharecropping with Mr. Wiley Bullock (Bullock) about five miles east of Battleboro. While sharecropping with Bullock, defendant owned a 1959 Chevrolet truck, color white over turquoise over white. Defendant borrowed $700.00 from Bullock for the purpose of buying a tractor and equipment. Defendant brought a Farmall 140 tractor to Bullock\u2019s farm the last of May or first of June 1970. Defendant used the tractor on Bullock\u2019s farm during the rest of 1970 and part of 1971. In March or April of 1971, defendant stopped farming with Bullock and went into the construction trade. Defendant sold the Farmall 140 tractor to Bullock for $900.00.\nIn August 1972, defendant, who was unknown to Thompson, went to Thompson\u2019s home and advised Thompson that he knew where Thompson\u2019s tractor was located. Defendant asked $200.00 for the information. Thompson and Deputy Pridgen went to Bullock\u2019s farm and inspected the Farmall 140 tractor in Bullock\u2019s possession. The serial number on the Farmall 140 tractor was the same as the serial number of the Farmall 140 tractor taken from Thompson\u2019s shed in 1970. Deputy Pridgen inspected a 1959 Chevrolet truck, color white over turquoise over white which defendant had abandoned when he left Bullock\u2019s farm in March or April of 1971. The serial number on the truck body was the same as the serial number of a truck registered in defendant\u2019s name. The piece of angle iron found by Deputy Pridgen at the scene in 1970 was similar to a piece of angle iron missing from the back of defendant\u2019s abandoned truck.\nIn our opinion, the evidence required submission of the case to the jury, and the evidence supports the verdict of guilty.\nNo error.\nJudges Parker and Baley concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "BROCK, Chief Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Morgan, by Associate Attorney Hassell, for the State.",
      "Spruill, Trotter & Lane, by John R. Jolly, Jr., for the defendant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. AMOS STANLEY BOYKINS\nNo. 747SC126\n(Filed 5 June 1974)\nLarceny \u00a7 7\u2014 larceny of tractor \u2014 sufficiency of evidence\nEvidence in a felonious larceny case was sufficient to be submitted to the jury where it tended to show that a tractor and equipment were stolen from one Thompson, defendant brought a tractor and equipment to the farm which he was sharecropping at about the same time, defendant sold the tractor to the owner of the farm when he left the next year, defendant then informed Thompson as to the whereabouts of the tractor and asked $200 for the information, Thompson went to the farm and discovered the tractor which defendant had left there, and the serial number matched that of the tractor stolen from Thompson.\nAppeal by defendant from James, Judge, 18 June 1973 Session of Superior Court held in Nash County. Argued in the Court of Appeals 9 April 1974.\nDefendant was charged in a bill of indictment with the felonious larceny of a Farmall 140 tractor and equipment.\nThe jury found defendant guilty as charged.\nAttorney General Morgan, by Associate Attorney Hassell, for the State.\nSpruill, Trotter & Lane, by John R. Jolly, Jr., for the defendant."
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  "file_name": "0034-01",
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  "last_page_order": 68
}