State v. Ray

261 S.E.2d 789 (1980)

299 N.C. 151

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Jimmy Darrell RAY.

No. 19.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 1, 1980.

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by Jo Anne Sanford, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the state.

George R. Barrett, Raleigh, Attorney for defendant appellant.

EXUM, Justice.

Defendant was tried on an indictment charging him with the first degree murder of Larry Caudle. At trial Judge Canaday at the close of all the evidence dismissed the charge of first degree murder and submitted to the jury alternative verdicts of second degree murder, manslaughter, involuntary…