Smith's Criminal Case Compendium
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Criminal Offenses
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State v. Lucas, 234 N.C. App. 247 (Jun. 3, 2014)
The trial court did not commit plain error by failing to define larceny in instructions it provided to the jury on burglary. Because evidence was presented permitting the inference that the defendants intended to steal property and there was no evidence suggesting that they intended to merely borrow it, the jury did not need a formal definition of the term “larceny” to understand its meaning and to apply that meaning to the evidence.