STATE v. DUBOISE

No. 4.

181 S.E.2d 393 (1971)

279 N.C. 73

STATE of North Carolina v. Leo DUBOISE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 10, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Yarborough, Jr., Louisburg, and Jacob W. Todd, Raleigh, for defendant appellant.

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen. by Edward L. Eatman, Jr., Staff Atty., Raleigh, for the State.


HUSKINS, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error that the trial court failed to instruct the jury on the issue of manslaughter and limited the jury in its deliberations to one of three verdicts, to wit: murder in the first degree (with or without recommendation as to punishment), murder in the second degree, and not guilty.

Where it is permissible under the bill of indictment to convict defendant of a lesser degree of the crime charged, and there is evidence...

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