STATE v. MESSIMER

No. 510.

75 S.E.2d 540 (1953)

237 N.C. 617

STATE v. MESSIMER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 29, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Lee Ritch, Charlotte, for defendant-appellant.

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., T. W. Bruton, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Charles G. Powell, Jr., Member of Staff, Raleigh, for the State.


WINBORNE, Justice.

Defendant presents on this appeal various assignments of error, some of which reveal prejudicial error. Of these it is sufficient to point to Exception 5.

In the course of his charge to the jury the trial judge instructed in substance that if the jury find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant struck the prosecuting witness with his fist, and committed an assault upon him...

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