If any person shall, on purpose and unlawfully, but without malice aforethought, cut, or slit the nose, bite or cut off the nose, or a lip or an ear, or disable any limb or member of any other person, or castrate any other person, or cut off, maim or disfigure any of the privy members of any other person, with intent to kill, maim, disfigure, disable or render impotent such person, the person so offending shall be punished as a Class E felon.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-29
Castration or other maiming without malice aforethought
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 214 N.C. App. 370 - State v. Flaugher (2011)
Most recently applied in 214 N.C. App. 370 - State v. Flaugher (August 2011)
1754, c. 56, P.R.; 1791, c. 339, ss. 2, 3, P.R.; 1831, c. 40, s. 2; R.C., c. 34, s. 47; Code, s. 1000; Rev., s. 3626; C.S., s. 4211; 1979, c. 760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316…
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