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  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. HURLEY CANADY",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Canady",
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  "docket_number": "No. 7019SC159",
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    "judges": [
      "BROCK and Hedricic, JJ., concur."
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      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. HURLEY CANADY"
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        "text": "Britt, J.\nThe only question presented in defendant\u2019s brief is stated as follows: \u201cWas the State\u2019s evidence sufficient to warrant its submission to the jury and upon which to base a verdict of guilty?\u201d\nAlthough the record reveals that defendant did not challenge the sufficiency of the State\u2019s evidence at trial, he contends that such evidence is reviewable on appeal under G.S. 15-173.1 which provides as follows: \u201cThe sufficiency of the evidence of the State in a criminal case is reviewable upon appeal without regard to whether a motion has been made pursuant to G.S. 15-173 in the trial court.\u201d Pursuant to this statute, enacted in 1967, we have reviewed the evidence to test its sufficiency to support the verdict of guilty. State v. Davis, 273 N.C. 349, 160 S.E. 2d 75 (1968).\nThe testimony of William Junior Hodges (Hodges), the victim of the armed robbery and the State\u2019s key witness, is summarized as follows: Around 5:00 a.m. on 30 July 1969, Hodges was sole attendant at the U-Save Service Station in Cabarrus County. He had just finished waiting on a customer, put the money from the sale in a box, and walked out to the side of the service station lot near his car when defendant and another man ran up behind him. The other man was wearing a stocking over his face and Hodges could not identify him. Defendant had a sawed-off shotgun and held it on Hodges. Defendant\u2019s accomplice ordered Hodges to \u201chand over the money\u201d after which Hodges told him the money was in a box in the station building. While defendant with his shotgun stayed with Hodges, the other man went into the building, got the money (approximately $350) and returned to where Hodges and defendant were. Defendant and the other person then forced Hodges to go with them back of a building some 200 yards from the station where they took a wallet, some cigarettes, a cigarette lighter, a wristwatch, a pocket knife, a 32-caliber pistol and $200.00 from Hodges\u2019 person. They then told Hodges to run up the road. Defendant was in Hodges\u2019 presence some ten or fifteen minutes and the service station lot was very well lighted. As soon as defendant and his accomplice left Hodges, he returned to the station and called the police. About a week later he saw defendant in jail and identified him as one of the persons who robbed him.\nWe conclude that the evidence was more than sufficient to warrant its submission to the jury and to support the jury\u2019s verdict of guilty of armed robbery.\nAlthough the other points discussed in defendant\u2019s brief are not supported by exceptions in the record, we have carefully considered them and conclude they are without merit. The defendant had a fair trial, free from prejudicial error, and the sentence imposed was well within statutory limits. G.S. 14-87.\nNo error.\nBROCK and Hedricic, JJ., concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Britt, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Robert Morgan and Deputy Attorney General Harrison Lewis for the State.",
      "Webster S. Medlin for defendant appellant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. HURLEY CANADY\nNo. 7019SC159\n(Filed 27 May 1970)\nRobbery \u00a7 4\u2014 armed robbery \u2014 sufficiency of evidence\nTestimony by armed robbery victim, including identification of defendant, was sufficient for submission of case to the jury.\nAppeal by defendant from Martin, S.J., October 1969 Session, Cabarrus Superior Court.\nBy bill of indictment sufficient in form, defendant was charged with armed robbery on 30 July 1969. He pleaded not guilty, a jury found him guilty as charged, and from judgment imposing active prison sentence of not less than 17 nor more than 20 years defendant appealed.\nAttorney General Robert Morgan and Deputy Attorney General Harrison Lewis for the State.\nWebster S. Medlin for defendant appellant."
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