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- Title: North Carolina v. West
- Author : Court of Appeals of North Carolina No. 7310SC809
- Release Date : January 06, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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Defendant first assigns as error that the trial judge explained to the jury that the term ""reasonable doubt"" meant ""possibility of innocence."" In State v. Chaney, 15 N.C. App. 166, 189 S.E.2d 594, we held that an instruction identical to the one complained of here was not prejudicial although we did not commend it. The instruction complained of was adopted by the Conference of Superior Court Judges as N.C.P.I., Criminal, § 101.10, effective June 1970. State v. Chaney, supra, was filed 28 June 1972. Effective November 1972, N.C.P.I., Criminal, § 101.10 was rewritten to adopt the suggestion in State v. Chaney, supra, to the effect that the definitions of the term ""reasonable doubt"" given in State v. Hammonds, 241 N.C. 226, 85 S.E.2d 133, are more desirable. Nevertheless, we see no prejudice to defendant in the definition of which he complains. This assignment of error is overruled.
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