State v. Squire

LAKE, Justice.

By virtue of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280, 96 S.Ct. 2978, 49 L.Ed. 2d 944 (1976), the death sentence imposed upon each of these defendants must be, and is hereby, vacated and a sentence to life imprisonment substituted therefor as hereinafter provided.

There was no error in consolidating the three cases for trial. G.S. 15A-926(b) (2) ; State v. Slade, 291 N.C. 275, 229 S.E. 2d 921 (1976) ; State v. Covington, 290 N.C. 313, 226 S.E. 2d 629 (1976) ; State v. King, 287 N.C. 645, 215 S.E. 2d 540 (1975). The three…