STATE v. MARTIN

No. 7714SC657.

240 S.E.2d 486 (1978)

35 N.C. App. 108

STATE of North Carolina v. Theodore Roosevelt MARTIN.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

January 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Elizabeth C. Bunting, Raleigh, for the State.

Pearson, Malone, Johnson, DeJarmon & Spaulding by George W. Brown, Durham, for the defendant-appellant.


HEDRICK, Judge.

The one assignment of error brought forward and discussed in defendant's brief is set out in the record as follows: "For that the trial Court committed prejudicial and reversible error in failing to charge the jury upon the lesser offenses of mansalughter [sic] in its varying degrees, self-defense or accident."

According to G.S. 1-180 the trial judge is required to "declare and explain the law arising on the evidence given in the case." The...

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