STATE v. PATTERSON

No. 60.

254 S.E.2d 604 (1979)

STATE of North Carolina v. Gregory Dean PATTERSON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 17, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by R. W. Newsom, III, Associate Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the state.

Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Becton, P.A., by J. LeVonne Chambers and Louis L. Lesesne, Jr., Charlotte, and Young M. Smith, Sr., Hickory, for defendant.


EXUM, Justice.

The parties stipulated at trial that the deceased, Michael Millsap, "died March 2, 1976, as a proximate result of gunshot wounds inflicted upon him by the defendant Gregory Dean Patterson." The defense was self-defense. Defendant has presented only one assignment of error. It questions the correctness of Judge Snepp's instructions to the jury regarding the inferences of malice and unlawfulness which may arise upon proof that defendant intentionally...

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