STATE v. POTTER

No. 58.

244 S.E.2d 397 (1978)

295 N.C. 126

STATE of North Carolina v. John Denver POTTER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by James Wallace, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Holshouser & Lamm, by Charles C. Lamm, Jr., and J. E. Holshouser, Jr., Boone, for defendant.


EXUM, Justice.

The state's evidence was that Ferd Snyder died as a result of a gunshot wound in his chest inflicted at close range on 25 September 1976. Its evidence also was, as defendant testifying in his own behalf admitted, that defendant intentionally inflicted this wound with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol. The defense was self-defense.

Defendant seeks a new trial for various errors he contends were committed...

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