STATE v. JACKSON

No. 7728SC892.

242 S.E.2d 891 (1978)

STATE of North Carolina v. Melvin JACKSON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Rudolph A. Ashton, III, Raleigh, for the State.

Peter L. Roda, Public Defender, Asheville, for the Twenty-Eighth Judicial District, for defendant appellant.


MITCHELL, Judge.

The sole question presented by the defendant is whether the court erred in its instruction to the jury regarding the law of accidental homicide and in its final mandate to the jury which did not specifically mention accidental homicide.

Defendant first contends that the court's definition of accident was so condensed that it was probably overlooked by the jury since the other "possible crimes involved were defined at great length as was the...

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