State v. Watson

COPELAND, Justice.

Defendant has brought forward thirteen (13) of thirty-four (34) assignments of error in his brief, the others having been abandoned. Rule 28, Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court. Investment Properties v. Allen, 281 N.C. 174, 188 S.E. 2d 441 (1972); Knutton v. Cofield, 273 N.C. 355, 160 S.E. 2d 29 (1968); Pendergrass v. Massengill, 269 N.C. 364, 152 S.E. 2d 657 (1967).

Defendant contends in his first series of assignments (Nos. 25, 30 and 33) that the trial court erred in charging the jury as to the type of provocation that could mitigate the killing to voluntary…