State v. Bynum
Decision Date | 26 January 1973 |
Docket Number | No. 60,60 |
Citation | 282 N.C. 552,193 S.E.2d 725 |
Court | North Carolina Supreme Court |
Parties | STATE of North Carolina v. Paul Lester BYNUM, Jollie Coley. STATE of North Carolina v. Jollie COLEY. |
Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., by Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., Charles A. Lloyd, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State.
Samuel S. Mitchell, Raleigh, for defendant appellants.
The defendants' original brief, by exceptions and assignments of error, presents these questions for review:
motions for nonsuit?
The defendants' supplemental brief lists the following as questions involved:
Miss Adams testified she was forced into the automobile, driven to a secluded spot on a side road, and forced to submit to an act of intercourse by each defendant. Immediately after her release she entered the home of strangers in a state of shock and had the officers called. The defendants testified as witnesses in their own defense. Both admitted they picked up Miss Adams, whom they did not know, because she was thumbing a ride. They drove to a side road where both had intercourse with her. Both claimed that all acts were with her consent.
The material factual disputes involved the issue whether the intercourse was voluntary or the result of force. The conflict in the testimony required its resolution by the jury. The jury chose to believe the victim. The court placed upon the State the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt all essential elements of the offenses charged and instructed the jury the failure of the State to carry the burden required a verdict of not guilty. There was no evidence of any included lesser offenses embraced within the indictments and hence the court was under no duty to charge on lesser included offenses.
In State v. Davis, 282 N.C. 107, 191 S.E.2d 664, Justice Moore for this Court, stated the rule:
The Court in State v. McNeil, 277 N.C. 162, 176 S.E.2d 732, said: The same language was repeated in State v. Bryant, 280 N.C. 551, 187 S.E.2d 111. (Certiorari denied by the Supreme Court of the United States, 409 U.S. 995, 93 S.Ct. 328, 34 L.Ed.2d 259, decided November 6, 1972.)
The defendants were placed on trial for kidnapping, a felony, and for rape, designated by G.S. § 14--21 as a capital felony with provision that if the trial jury should so recommend, the punishment should be imprisonment for life in the State's prison. The jury recommended and the court imposed the life imprisonment sentences. The defendants, therefore, are without standing to challenge the validity of a death sentence. Only the party aggrieved by the judgment may appeal. 1 Strong's N.C.Index 2d, Appeal and Error, § 7, p. 123.
The record discloses that the jury deliberated for about fifty minutes after the completion of the court's charge. The court then recalled the jury to the courtroom, instructed them not...
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