State v. Chase

The defendant assigns as error the following portion ol his Honor’s charge: “If the State of North Carolina has satisfied yor beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Otis Chase, unlawfully and by means of force and placing in fear the person of the witness Williams, without consent, and against his will and wilfully carried away without felonious intent to deprive the true owner of said money and tc appropriate.any part of it to his own use, the Court instructs you tc return a verdict of Guilty of Common Law Robbery.”

There is error in this portion of the charge, in that the jury is…