State v. Ramey

All assignments of error brought forward in defendant’s brief relate to the charge.

At the outset of the charge, the court explained defendant was presumed to be innocent and that the burden rested upon the State to satisfy the jury beyond a reasonable doubt as to defendant’s guilt before they could convict him.

After general instructions and a review of the evidence of the State and of defendant, instructions were given as to the elements of second degree murder and of manslaughter.

The court then charged the jury in substance that the intentional use of a deadly weapon as a weapon, when death…