State v. . Starnes

For error assigned to the charge as above indicated, there must be a new trial.

Murder in the first degree is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice and with premeditation and deliberation. C. S., 4200. S. v. Benson, 183 N. C., 795, 111 S. E., 809; S. v. Steele, 190 N. C., 506, 130 S. E., 308; S. v. Payne, 213 N. C., 719, 197 S. E., 753; S. v. Bowser, 214 N. C., 249, 199 S. E., 31; S. v. Hawkins, 214 N. C., 326, 199 S. E., 284, and numerous other cases.

Murder in the second degree is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice and without premeditation and deliberation. S. v.…