State v. Reid

ARNOLD, Judge.

Defendant asserts that the failure of the trial court to charge in its final mandate that the jury could find her not guilty by reason of self-defense was reversible error. She relies on State v. Dooley, 285 N.C. 158, 203 S.E. 2d 815 (1974); State v. Hunt, 28 N.C. App. 486, 221 S.E. 2d 720 (1976); and State v. Girley, 27 N.C. App. 388, 219 S.E. 2d 301 (1975), disc. rev. denied, 289 N.C. 141, 220 S.E. 2d 799 (1976).

The State asserts that the court’s instructions as to self-defense, when viewed as a whole, would have allowed a verdict of not guilty by reason of self-defense.…