STATE v. ALLEN

No. 42.

255 S.E.2d 362 (1979)

297 N.C. 429

STATE of North Carolina v. Daniel Kay ALLEN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 12, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Isham B. Hudson, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Ray H. Walton and William F. Fairley, Southport, for defendant-appellant.


HUSKINS, Justice:

Defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial court to submit nonfelonious breaking or entering as a permissible verdict, thereby limiting the jury in its deliberations to either a verdict of guilty of first degree burglary or not guilty.

In the burglary case the bill of indictment charges that defendant broke and entered the occupied dwelling house of Regina Wells in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony therein, to wit: "with...

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