State v. . Young
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an indictment for homicide, tried at the Fall Term, 1892, of Union Superior Court, before Graves, J. There was a verdict of guilty, and defendant appealed upon the grounds set out in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Burwell, J.:
The prisoner’s counsel, in apt time, requested his Honor to put his “entire charge” in writing, and pursuant to this request the charge in chief was written out and read to the jury and they withdrew. The “case on appeal,,r which we must accept as an exact account of the proceedings on trial, states that after the jury had been out for sometime, they “returned into Court and asked for further instruction as to the difference between manslaughter and murder, and his Honor proceeded to comply with their request, but failed to reduce his charge to the jury to writing, as he had ■been…
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