looking beyond the defendant's ownership and occupation of the bar and pool room to consider other incriminating circumstances
How later courts described this case
- looking beyond the defendant's ownership and occupation of the bar and pool room to consider other incriminating circumstances
- inferring knowledge and possession "by virtue of ownership and custody" and buttressing the inference with the defendant's physical presence
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Justice MITCHELL
dissenting.
For the reasons fully set forth by Judge Orr in the opinion for the majority in the Court of Appeals, 94 N.C. App. 270 , 380 S.E.2d 777 (1989), I dissent.