State v. Rummage

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant contends that the trial judge erred by failing to apply evidence offered as to deceased’s violent character to the question of defendant’s reasonable apprehension of death or great bodily harm from the alleged attack by deceased.

This question was considered by the Court in the case of State v. Riddle, 228 N.C. 251, 45 S.E. 2d 366. There defendant introduced evidence that deceased was a man of violent character, and the trial judge, in his charge, failed to explain the effect that such reputation might have upon defendant’s reasonable apprehension of death from the…