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STATE v. BRYANT

No. 89.

187 S.E.2d 111 (1972)

280 N.C. 551

STATE of North Carolina v. Willie Horace BRYANT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 15, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., by Associate Atty. Gen. Walter E. Ricks, III, and Deputy Atty. Gen. R. Bruce White, Jr., for the State.

James E. Ezzell, Jr., Rocky Mount, and Thomas W. Henson, for defendant appellant.

HIGGINS, Justice.

The State's evidence discloses ample support for every essential element of the capital offense charged in the indictment. The defendant as a witness for himself corroborates all essential elements of the offense except the use of force. Although he claimed the prosecuting witness consented, even so, he admitted when he approached her automobile he had an open knife in his pocket, ". . . (B)ecause I didn...

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