STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 8.

179 S.E.2d 429 (1971)

278 N.C. 252

STATE of North Carolina v. James Junior JOHNSON, alias Buddy Love.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 10, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., Staff Atty., Raleigh, for the State.

Brown, Fox & Deaver by Bobby G. Deaver, Fayetteville, for defendant appellant.


HIGGINS, Justice.

By Questions 1 and 2 discussed in his well prepared brief, defense counsel argues the evidence for the State, (1) was insufficient to be submitted to the jury on the charge of murder in the first degree; and (2) the court committed error in charging that murder in the first degree was a permissible verdict under the evidence in the case. These questions require a review of the State's evidence which included the defendant's confession. The two questions...

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