State v. Beam

We have carefully examined the defendant’s exceptions and assignments of error and in our opinion no prejudicial error was committed in the trial below that would justify a new trial.

It will be noted, however, that the jury did not make a specific finding that the defendant was a male person over eighteen years of age. Even so, the defendant does not claim to have been under eighteen years of age on 22 December 1960, nor did he except to and assign as error the failure of the jury to make a specific finding with respect to his age. However, in a criminal action, an appeal itself is an…