{
  "id": 8551456,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. EDDIE LEE BURNS",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Burns",
  "decision_date": "1975-01-02",
  "docket_number": "No. 7418SC851",
  "first_page": "392",
  "last_page": "393",
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      "cite": "24 N.C. App. 392"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
  },
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    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:54:40.635509+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "Judges Hedrick and Martin concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. EDDIE LEE BURNS"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "BROCK, Chief Judge.\nDefendant and his brother, the victim of the assault, went to their aunt\u2019s home for a visit. Defendant carried a bottle of whiskey. Defendant, his brother, their aunt, and a roomer in their aunt\u2019s home gathered in the living room. The four of them sat and talked while they had a few drinks. Defendant\u2019s aunt upset defendant\u2019s bottle of whiskey, and defendant became agitated. He drew a pistol from his pocket. His brother asked him to put it away. He shot his brother in the abdomen. As defendant\u2019s brother ran out the front door, defendant shot him in the back.\nDefendant\u2019s brother was hospitalized, underwent three operations, and suffered permanent injury as a result of being shot by defendant.\nDefendant\u2019s brother (the victim), defendant\u2019s aunt, and the roomer in the aunt\u2019s home each testified for the State. Their testimony was unequivocal upon the basic fact that defendant shot his brother twice and that he did so without justification. The State\u2019s evidence was clearly ample to support the verdict. The defendant offered no evidence.\nWe have reviewed defendant\u2019s several assignments of error. They are not sustained. In our opinion defendant had a fair trial free from prejudicial error.\nNo error.\nJudges Hedrick and Martin concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "BROCK, Chief Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Carson, by Assistant Attorney General Hamlin, for the State.",
      "Public Defender Harrelson, for the defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. EDDIE LEE BURNS\nNo. 7418SC851\n(Filed 2 January 1975)\nAssault and Battery \u00a7 14 \u2014 felonious assault \u2014 sufficiency of evidence\n, The State\u2019s evidence was sufficient to support the verdict finding defendant guilty of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury where it tended to show that defendant shot his brother twice without justification and that defendant\u2019s brother underwent three operations and suffered permanent injury as \u00e1 result of the gunshot wounds.\n\u2022 ON writ of certiorari to review a trial before Kivett, Judge, 5 October 1973 Session of Superior Court held in Guil-ford County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 20 November 1974.\nDefendant was charged in a bill of indictment with the felony of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious bodily injury. G.S. 14-32(a). The jury found him guilty of the felony of assault with a deadly weapon and inflicting serious injury. G.S. 14-32 (b).\nAttorney General Carson, by Assistant Attorney General Hamlin, for the State.\nPublic Defender Harrelson, for the defendant."
  },
  "file_name": "0392-01",
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  "last_page_order": 421
}