STATE v. BROWN

No. 851SC1159.

342 S.E.2d 42 (1986)

STATE of North Carolina v. Jessie BROWN.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Associate Atty. Kathryn L. Jones, Raleigh, for the State.

John W. Halstead, Jr., Elizabeth City, for defendant-appellant.


MARTIN, Judge.

Defendant assigns error to the denial of his motion to dismiss and to the trial court's instructions to the jury. For error in the trial court's instructions to the jury, we must order a new trial.

Defendant first contends that the court erred by denying his motion to dismiss at the close of all the evidence. He argues that there was insufficient evidence to establish that his acts were the proximate cause of Stone's death.

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