STATE v. ARTIS

No. 217.

64 S.E.2d 183 (1951)

233 N.C. 348

STATE v. ARTIS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 21, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Harry McMullan and Asst. Atty. Gen. Ralph Moody, for the State.

Herbert B. Hulse and Scott B. Berkeley, Goldsboro, for defendant.


STACY, Chief Justice.

The appeal challenges, first, the sufficiency of the evidence to overcome the demurrer, second, the submission of the charge of murder in the second degree, and, third, the correctness of the instructions to the jury.

The State's evidence readily supports the verdict. The defendant's evidence, if believed, would have justified a self-defense acquittal. And even if the weight of the evidence seems to bear in favor of the defendant, we...

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