State v. Edwards

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The two main questions presented by this appeal are whether the evidence seized when defendant was arrested should have been suppressed because the search violated either North Carolina law or the United States Constitution, and whether defendant was legally prejudiced by his case being tried when it was, though it had been scheduled for sentencing, rather than trial. We answer both these questions in the negative and hold that defendant’s trial was without reversible error.

One ground for nullifying the search of his premises that defendant asserts is that the search violated…