STATE v. SHAW

No. 152.

138 S.E.2d 772 (1964)

263 N.C. 99

STATE v. Lessie Mae SHAW.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 25, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen., T. W. Bruton and Deputy Atty. Gen., Harry W. McGalliard for the State.

Yarborough, Blanchard & Tucker, Raleigh, for defendant appellant.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant offered evidence tending to show that she killed her husband in self-defense. Her sole assignment of error, except two formal ones, is to a portion of the charge in respect to her defense that she killed her husband in self-defense. A charge must be read as a whole and not in detached fragments. A close study of the judge's charge in its entirety shows clearly that the court charged fully, amply, and correctly on all aspects of the law of selfdefense...

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