STATE v. STIMPSON

No. 97.

185 S.E.2d 168 (1971)

279 N.C. 716

STATE of North Carolina v. Ralph L. STIMPSON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 15, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan and Asst. Atty. Gen. Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., for the State.

Wallace C. Harrelson, Public Defender, and Dale Shepherd, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant appellant.


BOBBITT, Chief Justice.

Defendant assigns as error (1) the court's failure to instruct the jury that they could return a verdict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and (2) the overruling of objections to the cross-examination of defendant, for purposes of impeachment, with reference to his having been indicted in a different case. Discussion will be confined to these assignments.

Manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter differ in degree of criminality...

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