State v. Sandlin
110 S.E.2d 481 | N.C. | 1959
STATE
v.
Alvin SANDLIN and Clyde Sandlin.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
E. W. Summersill and Robert E. Lock, Jacksonville, for defendant-appellant.
Atty. Gen. Malcolm B. Seawell and Asst. Atty. Gen. Claude L. Love for the State.
PER CURIAM.
Defendants were not charged with murder, but an assault. It was error to place *482 on them the burden of proving they acted in self-defense. State v. Warren, 242 N.C. 581, 89 S.E.2d 109; State v. Muscat, 247 N.C. 266, 100 S.E.2d 510.
New trial.
HIGGINS, J., not sitting.
