2 N.C. App. 201 - State v. Withers’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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1. ““In many instances, of course, the law cannot be regarded as self-explanatory in all particulars, and judicial interpretation becomes a requirement of the law. G.S. 1-180. What situations demand an explanation of the law through proper instruction to the jury without special prayer, and what explanations may be regarded as matters of subordinate elaboration, must be referred to the history of the subject as developed in our Reports, rather than to any fixed rule. New situations must be dealt with as they arise. We can only say here that the statute itself employs simple and understandable terms which directly define the offense, and we think the instruction was comprehensible.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 35 N.C. App. 758 - State v. Jenkins