State v. Coward

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant argues that the trial judge erred by reading to the jury that portion of the bill of indictment which charged felonious larceny.

After reading that part of the indictment which charged burglary, the trial judge continued:. . . And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present that the said James Earl Coward, late of the County of Pitt, on the 8th day of April, 1978 between 4:45 a.m. and 5:45 a.m., in the night of the same day, with force and arms at and in the county aforesaid, of the value of Twenty Dollars of the goods and chattels of Mamie…