Certiorari Denied and Appeal Dismissed by Supreme Court May 24, 1972.
GRAHAM, Judge.
Defendant assigns as error the court's refusal to accept the first verdict announced by the jury.
While a verdict is not complete until accepted by the court, if the jury returns a verdict that is permissible under the charge and complete in itself, the court must accept it. State v. Sumner,
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