STATE v. SIMMONS

No. 298.

72 S.E.2d 743 (1952)

236 N.C. 340

STATE v. SIMMONS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 29, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Abernethy, Jr., New Bern, for defendant-appellant.

Atty. Gen. Harry McMullan, Asst. Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton, for the State.


WINBORNE, Justice.

At the outset let it be noted that defendant has been tried twice in the Superior Court of Craven County on substantially the same evidence, and thereon has been twice convicted of murder in the first degree. Nevertheless, substantial prejudicial error in the second trial, from judgment in which this appeal is taken, is made to appear, which entitles him to a third trial.

I. In the course of the charge of the court to the jury, in stating...

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