Court Opinion

ID: 6729844
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:10:34.730861+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:38.446608
License: Public Domain

Brock, J.
Appellant’s exceptions grouped under assignments of error Nos. 2 and 5 are not set out in his brief; therefore, they are deemed abandoned. Rule 28, Rules of Practice in the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.
Appellant assigns as error that the court erred in its charge to the jury by failing adequately to distinguish armed robbery from common law robbery and to charge the jury as to the elements necessary for conviction on either of the two charges.
The trial judge listed the elements of common law robbery as being applicable to both armed robbery and common law robbery. He then stated the additional element required for conviction of armed robbery, to wit, that the life of the person from whom the property is taken is endangered or threatened with the use or threatened use of any firearm or other dangerous weapon. These instructions clearly distinguish the two charges.
Appellant further assigns as error that the court, in charging as to the force or threatened force necessary to constitute robbery, led the jury to believe that it could return a verdict of guilty of armed robbery upon a finding that the force used was sufficient to create an apprehension of danger or to induce the victim to surrender his property to avoid apprehended injury. However close reading of the trial court’s charge demonstrates that the jury was instructed, in substance, that at least such force or threatened force must be found as would reason*450ably subject the victim to an apprehension of danger, in order to support a conviction of either common law robbery or armed robbery, and that, in addition, for conviction of armed robbery, the life of the victim must be endangered or threatened with the use or threatened use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon. The cases cited by appellant dealing with “conflicting instructions” are not in point.
No Error.
Morris and Graham, JJ., concur.