State v. Martin

HEDRICK, Judge.

The one assignment of error brought forward and discussed in defendant’s brief is set out in the record as follows: “For that the trial Court committed prejudicial and reversible error in failing to charge the jury upon the lesser offenses of mansalughter [sic] in its varying degrees, self-defense or accident.”

According to G.S. 1-180 the trial judge is required to “declare and explain the law arising on the evidence given in the case.” *110The statute comprehends instructions by the trial judge “on all substantial features of the case arising on the evidence without special request…