Court Opinion

ID: 9586259
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:08:46.414453+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:27:13.216707
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*296Justice MARTIN
concurring.
I concur wholeheartedly with the majority opinion. I write only to state that had the defendant requested that the jury be instructed to consider the evidence of defendant’s mental condition in connection with his ability to form the specific intent to kill, I would vote to hold it error to fail to so instruct. My opinion is based upon the scholarly and accurate dissent of Justice (later Chief Justice) Sharp in State v. Cooper, 286 N.C. 549, 213 S.E. 2d 305 (1975). Here, defendant made no such motion; therefore I concur in the majority opinion.
Justice Frye joins in this concurring opinion.