State v. Duvall

COPELAND, Justice.

This is another of the three cases, arising out of the same hit- and-run accident in Dare County, which our Court decides today. See State v. Charles Fearing, 304 N.C. 471, 284 S.E. 2d 487 (1981); State v. Malcolm Fearing, 304 N.C. 499, 284 S.E. 2d 479 (1981). In pertinent part, we have already determined that the defendants in the Fearing cases, supra, must be tried again for error in the instructions on the essential elements of the hit-and-run offense *559under G.S. 20-166 because the judges did not correctly explain the element of the driver’s guilty knowledge. The Court of…