State v. Varner

How courts have described this case

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• striking the victim with a paddle resulting in a large bruise and a few days of pain and limping amounted to misdemeanor child abuse
• “[O]ur Supreme Court has recognized that, as a general rule, a parent . . . is not criminally liable for inflicting physical injury on a child in the course of lawful administering corporal punishment.” (citation omitted)
• “Defendant cursed and yelled at his son prior to administering the paddling . . . which is some evidence of malice . . . [however] a jury could [also] reasonably find . . . [d]efendant administered the paddling without malice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Varner
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2018-05-11
• State v. Demick
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2023-04-18
• In re: A.J., J.C.
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2023-07-18
• State v. Freeman
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2024-08-06