STATE v. SANDERS

No. 8510SC1286.

344 S.E.2d 592 (1986)

STATE of North Carolina v. Luke SANDERS.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Sr. Deputy Atty. Gen. Eugene A. Smith and Associate Atty. Gen. Mabel Y. Bullock, Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, for the State.

Appellate Defender Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.


EAGLES, Judge.

Defendant first assigns error to the court's instruction that the knife or razor was a deadly weapon as a matter of law. Defendant failed to object to the instruction at trial, and therefore the only question properly before us is whether the instruction constituted "plain error." App.R. 10(b)(2); State v. Odom, 307 N.C. 655, 300 S.E.2d 375 (1983). Relying on State v. Torain, 316 N.C. 111,

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