NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Crim. 229.15
[BUYING] [SELLING] PUBLIC OFFICES. FELONY.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the State must
prove two things beyond a reasonable doubt:
First, that the defendant:
a) [[bargained away] [sold]] a(n) [[office] [deputation1 of an
office]
b) [[took [money] [a reward] [profit] for a(n) [office] [deputation
of an office]]
c) [[gave] [paid]] [money] [a reward] [profit] for a(n) [office]
[deputation of an office]]
d) [made a(n) [promise] [agreement] [bond] [assurance] for a(n)
[[office] [deputation of an office]
A public office is an agency for a state, and the person whose duty
it is to perform this agency is a public officer.2 A position is a public office
when it is created by law, with duties cast upon the incumbent which
involves an exercise of some portion of the sovereign power of the state
or subdivision thereof and in the performance of which the public is
concerned. 3
And Second, the office concerned the [administration or execution
of justice] [[receipt] [collection] [control] [disbursement] of the public
revenue] [a clerkship in any court of record wherein justice is
administered].
If you find from the evidence defendant beyond a reasonable doubt
that on or about the alleged date, the defendant
a) [[bargained away] [sold]] a(n) [[office] [deputation of an
office]
b) [[took [money] [a reward] [profit] for a(n) [office] [deputation
of an office]]
c) [[gave] [paid]] [money] [a reward] [profit] for a(n) [office]
[deputation of an office]]
d) [made a(n) [promise] [agreement] [bond] [assurance] for a(n)
[[office] [deputation of an office]
and that the office concerned the [administration or execution of justice]
[[receipt] [collection] [control] [disbursement] of the public revenue] [a
clerkship in any court of record wherein justice is administered], then it
would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty. If you do not so find or
have reasonable doubt as to one or both of these things, then it would
be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty.
History
N.C.P.I.—Crim. 229.15 (June 2016). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-228. Prepared by the North Carolina Conference of Superior Court Judges' Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, assisted by the UNC School of Government; published by the School of Government.
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