STATE v. McKISSICK

No. 272-D.

150 S.E.2d 767 (1966)

268 N.C. 411

STATE v. Warren Walter McKISSICK, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton, Deputy Atty. Gen. Harrison Lewis, and Trial Atty. Robert G. Webb, for the State.

Charles V. Bell and J. Levonne Chambers, Charlotte, for defendant appellant.


PARKER, Chief Justice.

The State and defendant offered evidence. The judge charged the jury. After the jury had deliberated in their room for several hours, the judge had them brought back into the courtroom and asked them if they had agreed upon a verdict. The jury answered, No. The court then charged them as follows, which defendant assigns as error:

"Well, members of the jury, a Judge cannot discharge a jury lightly. You must consider this case until we...

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