State v. Kyle

In State v. Kyle, 333 N.C. 687, 430 S.E.2d 412 (1993), our Supreme Court held it was error for a trial court to limit a voluntary intoxication instruction to first-degree murder when such an instruction was also appropriate to charges of burglary and kidnapping and when defendant had requested such an instruction. "Defendant was entitled, upon his request, to have the trial court instruct the jury on the law regarding voluntary intoxication as it applied to the offenses of burglary and kidnapping." Kyle, 333 N.C. at 699, 430 S.E.2d at 418.