State v. Parker

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

v.

JAMES WALTER PARKER

No. COA09-631.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed January 5, 2010.

This case not for publication

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Jane Ammons Gilchrist, for the State.

Irving Joyner for Defendant-Appellant.

McGEE, Judge.

James Walter Parker (Defendant) appeals from judgments entered after a jury found him guilty of attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Defendant contends that the trial court erred by giving jury instructions that defined a "deadly…