State v. Muscat
This text of 100 S.E.2d 510 (State v. Muscat) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of North Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Certain portion of the charge of the trial judge to the jury in respect to defendant’s plea of self-defense, to which defendant excepts, while proper in trial of a homicide case, the Attorney General confesses is improper in instant case, and is prejudicial to defendant, under authority of S. v. Warren, 242 N.C. 581, 89 S.E. 2d, 109; S. v. Cephus, 239 N.C. 521, 80 S.E 2d, 147; S. v. Carver, 213 N.C. 150, 195 S.E. 349.
Hence let there be a
New trial.
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100 S.E.2d 510, 247 N.C. 266, 1957 N.C. LEXIS 676, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/state-v-muscat-nc-1957.