STATE v. CHAMBERS

No. 577.

79 S.E.2d 262 (1953)

239 N.C. 114

STATE v. CHAMBERS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 16, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

John T. Page, Jr., Rockingham, for defendant appellant.


DEVIN, Chief Justice.

The defendant noted exception to and assigns as error the following instructions given to the jury by the court:

"Then on the count of larceny, gentlemen, there is this rule of law: Where a defendant is found in possession of property feloniously stolen and that possession is so recent from the time it was stolen that (he) could not have reasonably gotten the possession of that property without stealing it; if you find beyond a reasonable...

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