STATE v. SHEPHERD

No. COA02-449.

577 S.E.2d 341 (2003)

STATE of North Carolina v. Michael J. SHEPHERD.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 18, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Roy A. Cooper, III, by Assistant Attorney General Mary S. Mercer, for the State.

Randolph and Fischer, by J. Clark Fischer, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellant.


HUNTER, Judge.

Michael J. Shepherd ("defendant") appeals from a conviction of injury to prisoner by jailer. Defendant assigns error to the trial court's denial of his motion to dismiss the charge of injury to prisoner by jailer because defendant asserts that he was not "the keeper of a jail" within the meaning of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 162-55 (2001) since he was a courtroom bailiff. Defendant also contends the trial court erred in its instructions to the jury regarding...

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