Court Opinion

ID: 6729735
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:10:24.666912+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:38.345524
License: Public Domain

Brock, J.
Defendant’s sole assignment of error is that the trial judge instructed the jury that it might return a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. It is defendant’s argument that all of the evidence points to the crime of murder, and that the only controversy was whether defendant was the perpetrator. Under these circumstances defendant urges that it was error to submit the lesser offense of manslaughter to the jury.
Upon the authority of State v. Stephens, 244 N.C. 380, 93 S.E. 2d 431, this assignment of error is overruled.
No error.
Britt and Hedrick, JJ., concur.