{
  "id": 8549377,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. MARGARET M. MILLER",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Miller",
  "decision_date": "1970-05-06",
  "docket_number": "No. 7026SC190",
  "first_page": "82",
  "last_page": "82",
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      "cite": "8 N.C. App. 82"
    }
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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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    "judges": [
      "Britt and Graham, JL, concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. MARGARET M. MILLER"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "BROCK, J.\nWe have carefully examined defendant\u2019s assignment of. error to the refusal of the trial judge to grant her motion for nonsuit and in our opinion there was more than ample evidence to justify submitting the case to the jury. Also we have carefully considered defendant\u2019s assignments of error to the trial judge\u2019s instructions to the jury and in our opinion the instructions were more favorable to defendant than is required. Defendant had a fair and impartial trial, free from prejudicial error.\nNo error.\nBritt and Graham, JL, concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "BROCK, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Morgan, by Trial Attorney Webb, Sor the State.",
      "W. Herbert Brown, Jr., for the defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. MARGARET M. MILLER\nNo. 7026SC190\n(Filed 6 May 1970)\nHomicide \u00a7\u00a7 21, 26\u2014 second degree murder \u2014 sufficiency of evidence \u2014 instructions\nIn this prosecution for second degree murder, the evidence was sufficient for submission of the case to the jury and the instructions were\nmore favorable to defendant than is required.\nAppeal by defendant from Anglin, J., 27 October 1969, Schedule B Session, Mecklenburg Superior Court.\nDefendant was charged in a bill of indictment with the murder of Lester Burke Miller, her husband, on 26 August 1969 without premeditation and deliberation. Upon her plea of not guilty she was tried by jury which found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter. From the verdict and judgment of confinement defendant appealed.\nAttorney General Morgan, by Trial Attorney Webb, Sor the State.\nW. Herbert Brown, Jr., for the defendant."
  },
  "file_name": "0082-01",
  "first_page_order": 106,
  "last_page_order": 106
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