STATE v. WARD

No. 59.

266 S.E.2d 581 (1980)

300 N.C. 150

STATE of North Carolina v. Jerry Norman WARD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Thomas B. Wood, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

D. Jack Hooks, Whiteville, and Ray H. Walton, Southport, for defendant-appellant.


EXUM, Justice.

Defendant's assignments of error challenge the admissibility of certain testimony offered by a ballistics expert on behalf of the state and the sufficiency of the trial court's instructions to the jury. For errors in the jury instructions, we reverse and grant a new trial.

The state's evidence tended to show that on 29 March 1979, the deceased, Joe Eddy White, was at the home of his parents watching television with his mother. White's mother...

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