{
  "id": 8547894,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. CHARLES JENKINS MASON",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Mason",
  "decision_date": "1975-12-17",
  "docket_number": "No. 756SC593",
  "first_page": "218",
  "last_page": "219",
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      "cite": "28 N.C. App. 218"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "judges": [
      "Judges Parker and Martin concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. CHARLES JENKINS MASON"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "MORRIS, Judge.\nDefendant candidly concedes that except for his seventh assignment of error he can find no prejudicial error. By his remaining assignment of error defendant contends that the trial court failed to instruct the jury on the question of defendant\u2019s \u201cknowledge\u201d of possessing marijuana.\nWe have examined the charge contextually and find that the trial court\u2019s instructions sufficiently addresses the contention raised by the defendant herein.\nWe also have reviewed the record as a whole and find no error prejudicial to defendant.\nNo error.\nJudges Parker and Martin concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "MORRIS, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Edmisten, by Assistant Attorney General George W. Boylan, for the State.",
      "Revelle, Burleson & Lee, by L. Frank Burleson, Jr., for defendant appellant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. CHARLES JENKINS MASON\nNo. 756SC593\n(Filed 17 December 1975)\nNarcotics \u00a7 4.5 \u2014 knowledge of possession \u2014 instructions\nThe trial court sufficiently instructed the jury on the question of defendant\u2019s knowledge of possessing marijuana.\nAppeal by defendant from Tillery, Judge. Judgment entered 13 March 1975 in Superior Court, Hertford County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 23 October 1975.\nDefendant was indicted for the 23 October 1974 possession with the intent to sell marijuana and was found guilty of possession of marijuana. Judgment was entered sentencing defendant as a youthful offender.\nAccording to the State\u2019s evidence, ABC Officer Calvin Pearce observed defendant receive from someone in a van a clear plastic bag containing a green substance. Pearce recalled that defendant \u201c. . . was sitting and talking to a girl outside of the window of the truck at this time. He was flipping the bag back and . . . [forth and] flipping it in his fingers and hands and then passed it back to Dean, who was the driver.\u201d The parties stipulated that the bag contained five grams of marijuana. In the van, authorities found 19 ounces of marijuana, individually packaged in one ounce sandwich bags and two pipes used for smoking marijuana.\nDefendant claimed that he neither handled nor saw any of the marijuana. Marcia Jones essentially corroborated defendant\u2019s testimony.\nAttorney General Edmisten, by Assistant Attorney General George W. Boylan, for the State.\nRevelle, Burleson & Lee, by L. Frank Burleson, Jr., for defendant appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0218-01",
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