STATE v. TARRANT

No. 8326SC1202.

320 S.E.2d 291 (1984)

STATE of North Carolina v. Michael TARRANT. STATE of North Carolina v. Bernard DAVIS.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. James E. Magner, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

Scott T. Pollard and Dozier, Brackett, Miller, Pollard & Murphy by Fritz Y. Mercer, Jr., Charlotte, for defendants-appellants.


EAGLES, Judge.

I

The trial judge submitted two possible verdicts to the jury, guilty of robbery with a dangerous weapon and not guilty. Defendants argue on appeal that the trial court erred in failing to instruct on and to submit as possible verdicts the lesser included offenses of common law robbery and simple assault.

As a general rule, when there is evidence of a defendant's guilt of a crime which is a lesser included offense of the crime stated...

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