State v. . Bryant

The State’s evidence, which seems to have been accepted by the jury, was sufficient to support the verdict and judgment. S. v. Houpe, 207 N. C., 377, 177 S. E., 20; S. v. Swindell, 189 N. C., 151, 126 S. E., 417. Tbe defendant, however, assigns error in the instruction given by the trial judge to the jury in response to an inquiry from one of the jurors. The juror asked what the law considered “the time limit of gestation,” and the court replied that.there was no law about it, so far as the court knew, and that there had been no medical or other evidence as to the period of gestation.^ But…