STATE v. SUMMITT

No. 41.

273 S.E.2d 425 (1981)

STATE of North Carolina v. Mark SUMMITT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by John R. B. Matthis, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Alan S. Hirsch, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John F. Maddry, Associate Atty., Raleigh, for the State.

Frank Patton Cooke, Gastonia, by Kenneth B. Oettinger, for defendant-appellant.


BRANCH, Chief Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the action of the trial judge in submitting to the jury, over his objection, the lesser-included offense of second-degree rape. Defendant argues that it was error to submit the lesser-included offense of second-degree rape because there was no evidence from which the jury could find that he committed that offense. Defendant was charged under the provisions of former G.S. 14-21, repealed effective 1 January 1980 which...

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