State v. Shackleford

While defendant sets forth in the record on appeal -a great many assignments of error, he debates in his brief mainly the group relating to the exclusion of the expert testimony pertaining to psychopathic personality. In excluding the testimony error is not made to appear.

In this connection, it is noted that in this State the-test of responsibility of a person charged with a criminal offense is the capacity, to distinguish between right and wrong at the time and in respect of the matter under investigation. S. v. Brandon, 53 N.C. 463; S. v. Potts, 100 N.C. 457, 6 S.E. 657; S. v. Harris, 223…