# State v. Young

> Supreme Court of North Carolina · June 8, 1989 · 324 N.C. 489

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9582240

## Case

- **Full name:** State of North Carolina v. William James Young
- **Court:** Supreme Court of North Carolina
- **Decided:** June 8, 1989
- **Citations:** 324 N.C. 489; 380 S.E.2d 94; 1989 N.C. LEXIS 301
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Webb
- **Judges:** Mitchell, Webb
- **Cited by:** 61 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that even if the trial court had erred by not instructing the jury on involuntary manslaughter, “the error was harmless because the trial court gave correct instructions as to possible verdicts on murder in the first and second degrees and the jury found the defenda…
- concluding that “in the context of the instructions given” the trial court’s comment that the defendant had “confessed” to the crime was not an expression of opinion where the comments were immediately followed by the instruction, “ ‘Now, if you find that the defendant made th…
- concluding that failure to instruct on voluntary manslaughter as alternative to second degree murder was harmless because jury convicted defendant “of the greater crime of murder in the first degree”
- holding that a violation of a statutory mandates is reviewable de novo without objection

## Opinion text

*499 Justice Webb
concurring.
I concur in the result. I continue to adhere, however, to the reasoning of my concurring opinion in State v. Lane, 77 N.C. App. 741, 746 , 336 S.E. 2d 410, 412 (1985). For that reason I do not believe involuntary manslaughter is a lesser included offense of first degree murder and it was not error not to charge the jury on involuntary manslaughter.

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