{
  "id": 11312267,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. EASTER MAE LITTLE MOORE",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Moore",
  "decision_date": "1974-08-07",
  "docket_number": "No. 7418SC515",
  "first_page": "679",
  "last_page": "681",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "22 N.C. App. 679"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
  "cites_to": [
    {
      "cite": "157 S.E. 2d 660",
      "category": "reporters:state_regional",
      "reporter": "S.E.2d",
      "opinion_index": 0
    },
    {
      "cite": "272 N.C. 130",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "N.C.",
      "case_ids": [
        8571369
      ],
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/nc/272/0130-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "179 S.E. 2d 368",
      "category": "reporters:state_regional",
      "reporter": "S.E.2d",
      "opinion_index": 0
    },
    {
      "cite": "278 N.C. 284",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "N.C.",
      "case_ids": [
        8560166
      ],
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/nc/278/0284-01"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 294,
    "char_count": 4123,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.589,
    "pagerank": {
      "raw": 2.0446031217563963e-07,
      "percentile": 0.7531338699669363
    },
    "sha256": "4b107856c832e77355b662a587900c230ff02919b8fb7ad6476b653890484566",
    "simhash": "1:88ec3cfdd2bf1e6f",
    "word_count": 698
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T16:09:41.671000+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "Judges Mor\u00e9is and Vaughn concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. EASTER MAE LITTLE MOORE"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "BALEY, Judge.\nThe sole question presented by this appeal is whether the evidence of the State was sufficient to justify the submission of the case to the jury and to support the verdict reached. Defendant contends that, although she was present at the time of the robbery, there is no evidence that she participated actively or aided and abetted the other participants in the commission of the crime. She argues that there was no evidence that she gave any encouragement to the perpetrators of the crime or let it be known that she was standing by to render assistance.\nThe State\u2019s evidence included the testimony of Yvonne Franklin, the station attendant, William Henry Freeland, one of the perpetrators of the robbery, police officers who investigated the case, and the signed statement of the defendant herself. In defendant\u2019s statement she admitted the two persons who robbed the station, Earl Street, and Freeland, came to her home the afternoon of 13 August 1973 needing money, and she told them of \u25a0 the Mobile service station attended by her friend Yvonne Franklin. Street and Freeland returned about midnight and she provided them with a gun and went with them in their car to point out the service station. After they passed the station they let defendant out of the car and she walked to the station and was present when Street and Freeland entered the station, presented the gun, and took the money from the attendant Yvonne. She did not reveal to Yvonne that she knew Street and Freeland and refused to identify them after they were in custody. She pointed out some other person in a Cadillac as looking like one of the robbers. The witness Freeland testified to substantially the same information contained in defendant\u2019s statement and added that it was their intent to meet back at the defendant\u2019s home after the robbery.\nIt seems clear that the State\u2019s evidence was ample to establish that defendant picked the victim, furnished the weapon, was present during the robbery, refused to identify the robbers, and tried to mislead the officers by identifying another person. She was no innocent bystander, but a planted observer. Defendant was a full participant in the planning of the crime and in its execution. She was present and assisted the other active perpetrators of the robbery.\nWhen two or more persons aid and abet each other in the commission of a crime, all are principals and equally guilty. Strong, N. C. Index 2d, Criminal Law, \u00a7 9; State v. Terry, 278 N.C. 284, 179 S.E. 2d 368; State v. McNair, 272 N.C. 130, 157 S.E. 2d 660.\nThe motions of defendant for judgment of nonsuit and to set aside the verdict were properly denied.\nIn this trial, we find no error.\nNo error.\nJudges Mor\u00e9is and Vaughn concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "BALEY, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Robert Morgan, by Associate Attorney Charles J. Murray, for the State.",
      "Smith, Carrington, Patterson, Foll\u00edn & Curtis, by Kenneth M. Carrington, for defendant appellant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. EASTER MAE LITTLE MOORE\nNo. 7418SC515\n(Filed 7 August 1974)\nRobbery \u00a7 4\u2014 guilt as aider and abettor\nThe State\u2019s evidence was sufficient to support a jury finding that defendant aided and abetted in the commission of an armed robbery where it tended to show that defendant suggested that two acquaintances rob a service station attended by her friend, furnished the gun used in the robbery, pointed out the service station to the two robbers, was present in the service station during the robbery, refused to identify the robbers and tried to mislead officers by identifying another person.\nAppeal by defendant from Lupton, Judge, 26 November 1973 Session of Superior Court held in Guilford County.\nHeard in Court of Appeals 20 June 1974.\nDefendant was tried upon a bill of indictment, proper in form, which charged the robbery with a firearm of Mobil Center, Inc., a service station in Greensboro, North Carolina, on 14 August 1973, and the taking of $75.54 from Yvonne Franklin, an attendant at the station.\nDefendant entered a plea of not guilty but was convicted by a jury and sentenced by the court to a term of ten years imprisonment.\nFrom this judgment she has appealed.\nAttorney General Robert Morgan, by Associate Attorney Charles J. Murray, for the State.\nSmith, Carrington, Patterson, Foll\u00edn & Curtis, by Kenneth M. Carrington, for defendant appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0679-01",
  "first_page_order": 711,
  "last_page_order": 713
}