State v. . Dixon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Manslaughter, tried before Moore, J., at January Term, 1876, of Edgecombe Superior Court. The facts, necessary to an understanding of the case, as-decided, are fully set out in the opinion of the Court. There was a verdict of guilty, and judgment thereupon.. The prisoner appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
The prisoner is indicted for manslaughter. The testimony of several witnesses was introduced in his behalf, and at the conclusion of the evidence, the Court ashed the counsel of the prisoner what they had to say. The counsel replied : “ We shall take the ground that it was in self defence.” His Honor: “ It is manslaughter in any phase, with many elements of murder. I shall tell the jury . to return a verdict of manslaughterand he so directed,, and the verdict was so entered.
Rev. Code, chap. 31, sec. 130, provides that “ no Judge, in delivering a charge to^the petit jury, shall give__an…
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