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  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. JIMMY MUSSELWHITE",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Musselwhite",
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      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. JIMMY MUSSELWHITE"
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nDefendant contends that the Court of Appeals erred in holding (1) that defendant was not entitled to a jury instruction on self-defense, and (2) that the trial court adequately explained the principles of acting in concert as they applied to the evidence in this case.\nWe have carefully reviewed the opinion of the Court of Appeals and the briefs and authorities relating to defendant\u2019s contentions. We conclude that the result reached by the Court of Appeals, its reasoning, and the legal principles enunciated by it are correct and adopt that opinion as our own.\nThe decision of the Court of Appeals is\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "PER CURIAM."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Rufus L. Edmisten, by Associate Attorney Walter M. Smith and Assistant Attorney General Reginald L. Watkins, for the State.",
      "Adam Stein, Appellate Defender, and James H. Gold, Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. JIMMY MUSSELWHITE\nNo. 153A81\n(Filed 3 March 1982)\nAPPEAL from a decision of the Court of Appeals finding no error in the judgment entered by Battle, J., at the 27 October 1980 Criminal Session of ROBESON Superior Court. The Court of Appeals\u2019 opinion, 54 N.C. App. 68, \u2014 S.E. 2d \u2014 (1981), is by Judge Robert M. Martin with Judge Harry C. Martin concurring. Judge Becton dissented and defendant appealed to this court pursuant to G.S. 7A-30(2).\nDefendant was convicted of the offense of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling in violation of G.S. 14-34.1. The trial judge entered judgment imposing a prison sentence of not less than three nor more than five years.\nAttorney General Rufus L. Edmisten, by Associate Attorney Walter M. Smith and Assistant Attorney General Reginald L. Watkins, for the State.\nAdam Stein, Appellate Defender, and James H. Gold, Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant."
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