Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1927

State v. . McCoy

State v. . McCoy
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided December 21, 1927 · Oubiam
140 S.E. 926; 194 N.C. 821; 1927 N.C. LEXIS 262 (South Eastern Reporter)

State v. . McCoy

Opinion of the Court

Pee Oubiam.

Upon tbe call of this case for argument on defendants’ appeal to this Court, tbe Attorney-General confessed error upon tbe record. An examination of the record discloses that there was error in tbe instruction of tbe court to tbe jury, which was as follows: “If you believe tbe evidence and are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt, you will find defendants guilty.” Tbe evidence tended to show that defendants, in tbe day time, got three bushels of apples from a tree on tbe land of tbe State’s witness and carried them away. It was' error for tbe court to fail to submit to tbe jury, with proper instructions, tbe question of felonious intent. S. v. Eunice, ante, 409. For this error defendants are entitled to a

New trial.

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