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STATE v. BUNNING

No. 403A92.

450 S.E.2d 462 (1994)

338 N.C. 483

STATE of North Carolina v. Robert Earl BUNNING, a/k/a Robert Earl Garris.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 9, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Atty. Gen. by Barry S. McNeill, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., for the State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, Appellate Defender's Office, Durham, for defendant-appellant.

WEBB, Justice.

The defendant's first assignment of error deals with the charge. The court charged the jury on reasonable doubt as follows:

Now, a reasonable doubt is not a vain, imaginary or fanciful doubt, but it's a sane and rational doubt. It's a doubt based on common sense. When it's said that you, the jury, must be satisfied of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, it is meant that you must be fully satisfied or completely satisfied or satisfied...

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