State v. Hamilton

The defendants’ first assignment of error is to the granting of the solicitor’s motion to consolidate the cases for trial.

It is provided in G.S. 15-152, in pertinent part, as follows:

“When there are several charges against any person for the same act or transaction or for two or more acts or transactions connected together, or for two or more transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses, which may be properly joined, instead of several indictments, the whole may be joined in one indictment in separate counts; and if two or more indictments are found in such cases, the court will order…