STATE v. WHITAKER

No. 105PA82.

296 S.E.2d 273 (1982)

STATE of North Carolina v. Stanley Curtis WHITAKER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Richard L. Kucharski, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Adam Stein, Appellate Defender by Malcolm R. Hunter, Jr., Asst. Appellate Defender, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee.


EXUM, Justice.

The sole question in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in failing to submit to the jury the crime of assault as a lesser included offense of attempted common law robbery. The Court of Appeals believed it did and ordered a new trial. We conclude that even if an assault is a lesser included offense of attempted common law robbery, a point we do not decide, the evidence does not justify submission of it to the jury. We reverse.

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