State v. . Patton’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Though some expressions which were used arguendo in that case (S. v. Jennings) , one of which is quoted in S. v. Shade ( 115 N.C. 757 ), at this term, may have been misleading, the only point really settled was that where one steps up stealthily behind another and stabs him without warning, it is as much an assault committed `in a secret manner' as where one lies in ambush and shoots another.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. . Bridges