STATE v. LEONARD

No. 11.

248 S.E.2d 853 (1978)

296 N.C. 58

STATE of North Carolina v. Peggy Massey LEONARD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Jane Rankin Thompson, Raleigh, for the State.

Robert B. Smith, Jr., Lexington, for defendant.


BRITT, Justice.

By her first assignment of error defendant contends the trial court erred in denying her request that her counsel be allowed to ask each prospective juror, rather than the entire panel, the following question: "If the defendant should satisfy you by medical testimony that she was insane at the time of the alleged crime, would you be willing to return a verdict of not guilty even though the evidence would show she did kill her sister?"

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