HUSKINS, Justice:
Defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial court to submit manslaughter as a permissible verdict.
Where, under the bill of indictment, it is permissible to convict defendant of a lesser degree of the crime charged, and there is evidence to support a milder verdict, defendant is entitled to have the different permissible verdicts arising on the evidence presented to the jury under proper instructions. State v. Keaton, 206 N.C. 682...
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