58 N.C. App. 746 - State v. Willoughby’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2000
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“We do not believe the court should have charged on accident. If [the victim] died as a result of an accidental drowning, it was an accident with which the defendant had nothing to do. The jury-accepted the version of the incident in accordance with the State’s evidence. This evidence showed the defendant committed murder. If the jury had accepted the defendant’s version of the event, the jury should have found the defendant not guilty under the charge given to them by the court. It was not necessary for the court to charge on accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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