NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Crim. 247.80B
[OWNING] [POSSESSING] [USING] [TRANSPORTING] [TRAFFICKING] OF LARGE CONSTRICTING SNAKE NOT HOUSED IN A STURDY AND SECURE ENCLOSURE. MISDEMEANOR.
NOTE WELL: This instruction is applicable for offenses committed
on or after December 1, 2009.
The defendant has been charged with [owning] [possessing] [using]
[transporting] [trafficking] a large constricting snake not housed in a sturdy
and secure enclosure.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the State must prove
[two] [three] things beyond a reasonable doubt:
First, that the defendant [owned] [possessed] [used] [transported]
[trafficked1] a large constricting snake.2 (Name animal) is a large constricting
snake.
(And) Second, that the large constricting snake was not housed in a
sturdy and secure enclosure.3
(Use the following element only if the alleged victim was a person other
than the [owner] [owner’s agent] [member of the owner’s immediately
family].)
(And Third, that the alleged victim [suffered a life threatening injury]
[was killed].4)
If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or
about the alleged date, the defendant [owned] [possessed] [used]
[transported] [trafficked] a large constricting snake (and) that the large
constricting snake was not housed in a sturdy and secure enclosure, (and that
the alleged victim [suffered a life threatening injury] [was killed]), it would be
your duty to return a verdict of guilty. If you do not so find or have a
reasonable doubt as to one or more of these things, it would be your duty to
return a verdict of not guilty.
History
N.C.P.I.—Crim. 247.80B (June 2020). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-417.1. 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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