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STATE v. SPRINKLE

No. 7623SC217.

226 S.E.2d 827 (1976)

30 N.C. App. 383

STATE of North Carolina v. John A. SPRINKLE.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 4, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. John Silverstein and Associate Atty. Noel Lee Allen, Raleigh, for the State.

Arnold L. Young, Sparta, and Franklin D. Smith, Elkin, for defendant-appellant.

MORRIS, Judge.

Defendant, contending that he acted in self-defense, maintains that the trial court erred by failing to charge the jury correctly and sufficiently that the burden of proof with respect to self-defense rests with the State, in violation of the principles enunciated in Mullaney v. Wilbur, 421 U.S. 684, 95 S.Ct. 1881, 44 L.Ed.2d 508 (1975); State v. Hankerson, 288 N.C. 632, ...

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