STATE v. KNIGHT

No. 8920SC940.

391 S.E.2d 854 (1990)

STATE of North Carolina v. David KNIGHT.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Associate Atty. Gen. Patricia F. Padgett, Raleigh, for the State.

Charles B. Brooks, II, Monroe, for defendant-appellant.


PHILLIPS, Judge.

In appealing his conviction of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury defendant makes three contentions: That there is no evidence that he used a deadly weapon; that the court erred in refusing to charge on simple assault; and in charging that a knife was a deadly weapon, in that there was no evidence that he used a knife. None of the contentions has merit.

The deadliness of the weapon used, that it was a knife and that the...

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