STATE v. HAMBY

No. 4.

174 S.E.2d 385 (1970)

276 N.C. 674

STATE of North Carolina v. Ray HAMBY. STATE of North Carolina v. Craig Barry CHANDLER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 12, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., Ralph Moody, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Donald M. Jacobs, Raleigh, Staff Atty., for the State.

M. T. Leatherman and Sheldon M. Roper, Lincolnton, for defendant-appellants.


SHARP, Justice.

Defendants bring forward one assignment of error. They specify that the only question presented by this appeal is whether the court erred in overruling their motion for judgment of nonsuit on the charge of murder in the first degree. They contend that "the State offered positive, direct and substantial evidence that the defendants were drunk before and at the time the crime was committed and therefore could not have acted with premeditation and deliberation...

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