State v. Ray

61 S.E.2d 254, 232 N.C. 496, 1950 N.C. LEXIS 544

• Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
• Decided: October 11, 1950
• Status: Published

Opinion

Stacy, C. J.

All that appears in this case is the record proper, the Judge’s charge and the defendant’s assignments of error. The transcript is devoid of any evidence offered at the trial or taken on the hearing. The exceptions are addressed exclusively to portions of the charge.

Even if some of the instructions, standing alone, should be regarded as erroneous, they could not be declared prejudicial or hurtful, unless inherently and patently so, in the absence of the evidence upon which they were based or to which they speak. 24 C.J.S. 733; Pickett v. Pickett, 14 N.C. 6; S. v. Wilson, 121 N.C. 650, 28 S.E. 416.

In Pickett v. Pickett, supra-First Syllabus-it is said: “In an appeal to the Supreme Court, if the case stated does not contain the facts to. which the charge of the judge was applied, however erroneous the charge itself may be, as an abstract proposition, still the judgment must he affirmed. A judgment is not reversed because it does not appear to be right; it must be affirmed unless it appear to be wrong.”

We find no sufficient cause to disturb the result of the trial. The verdict and judgment will be upheld.

No error.