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STATE v. WILLIS

No. 74.

121 S.E.2d 854 (1961)

255 N.C. 473

STATE v. Edgar WILLIS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 11, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State, appellant.

C. R. Wheatly, Jr., and Thomas S. Bennett, Beaufort, for defendant, appellee.

MOORE, Justice.

Is an attempt to commit suicide a crime in North Carolina? This necessarily raises the further question: Is suicide a crime in this jurisdiction? "To constitute a criminal attempt, it is necessary that the act which is attempted be a crime." 1 Wharton's Criminal Law and Procedure (1957), s. 72, p. 155.

"`It is manifest,' said the General Assembly of North Carolina in 1715 `that the laws of England...

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