STATE v. MASON

No. 258.

150 S.E.2d 753 (1966)

268 N.C. 423

STATE v. Grelia Arthur MASON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton and Asst. Atty. Gen. Millard R. Rich, Jr., for the State.

Elreta Melton Alexander and E. L. Alston, Jr., Greensboro, for defendant, appellant.


BRANCH, Justice.

The defendant's principal assignments of error relate to the charge to the jury and present the question: Did the court below err in failing to charge the jury that in order to find defendant guilty, it must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant wilfully failed, after demand made of him, to support his illegitimate child?

Pertinent excerpts from the trial judge's charge necessary for our consideration are:

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