STATE v. REDFERN

No. 116.

230 S.E.2d 152 (1976)

291 N.C. 319

STATE of North Carolina v. George Lee REDFERN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Special Deputy Atty. Gen. John R. B. Matthis and Associate Atty. Rebecca R. Bevacqua, Raleigh, for the State.

R. Wayne Pickett, Concord, for defendant-appellant.


BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant's sole assignment of error attacks the failure of the trial court to charge the jury on the lesser-included offense of involuntary manslaughter.

Involuntary manslaughter is the unintentional killing of a human being without malice, proximately caused by (1) an unlawful act not amounting to a felony nor naturally dangerous to human life, or (2) a culpably negligent act or omission. State v. Ward, 286 N.C. 304...

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