State v. Fowler

MOORE, Justice.

Assignments of error Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 are not brought forward and argued in defendant’s brief, and consequently these assignments are deemed abandoned. Rule 28, Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court; State v. Crews, 284 N.C. 427, 201 S.E. 2d 840 (1974) ; State v. McLean, 282 N.C. 147, 191 S.E. 2d 598 (1972). However, in view of the gravity of the punishment in this case, we have carefully reviewed these assignments but find them to be without merit.

By his fourth assignment of error defendant asserts that “[t]he trial court erred in its instructions to the jury in that…