State v. Lampkins

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant contends that the trial judge erred by instructing the jury as to flight by defendant because there was no evidence in the record to support such instruction.

The challenged portion of the charge reads as follows:

“Now the State contends that the defendant in this case left Forsyth County and Winston-Salem sometime shortly after this alleged burglary took place, and he remained gone for some period of time thereafter.

Now evidence of flight may be considered by you together with all other facts and circumstances in this case in determining whether the combined…