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State v. Langley

Citations

  • 817 S.E.2d 191
  • 371 N.C. 389

Syllabus

Whether the indictment charging defendant with having attained habitual felon status was fatally defective.

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that “[w]hen a defendant is indicted for a criminal offense, he may be convicted of the charged offense or a lesser included offense when the greater offense charged in the bill of indictment contains all of the essential elements of the lesser”
  • relying on the common law rule articulated in State v. McBane , 276 N.C. 60 , 65, 170 S.E.2d 913 , 916 (1969)
  • relying on the common law rule articulated in State v. McBane, 276 N.C. 60, 65, 170 S.E.2d 913, 916 (1969)

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Judges: Ervin

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