STATE v. SHACKLEFORD

No. 651.

59 S.E.2d 825 (1950)

232 N.C. 299

STATE v. SHACKLEFORD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., Hughes J. Rhodes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter F. Brinkley, Member of Staff, Lexington, for the State.

York, Morgan & York, Haworth & Mattocks, High Point, for defendant appellant.


WINBORNE, Justice.

While defendant sets forth in the record on appeal a great many assignments of error, he debates in his brief mainly the group relating to the exclusion of the expert testimony pertaining to psychopathic personality. In excluding the testimony error is not made to appear.

In this connection, it is noted that in this State the test of responsibility of a person charged with a criminal offense is the capacity to distinguish between right and...

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