State v. Newton

While the record shows four assignments of error, only two are discussed in defendant’s brief. Assignments of error, under our Rules land decisions, are deemed abandoned when defendant’s brief states no reason or argument and cites no authority in support thereof. S. v. Perry, 250 N.C. 119, 132, 108 S.E. 2d 447.

Defendant assigns as error: “That the trial Court erred in that in his Charge to the Jury, he failed to declare and explain the law aris ing on the evidence in the ease and failed to apply the law to the evidence.” This assignment, and the exception on which it is basedi, is broadside…