State v. Bryant

The defendants’ first assignment of error is based on their exception to the ruling of the trial court in granting the Solicitor’s motion to consolidate the oases for trial.

The general rule with respect to the consolidation of criminal cases is stated in S. v. Combs, 200 N.C. 671, 158 S.E. 252. “The court is expressly authorized by statute in this State to order the consolidation for trial of two or more indictments in which the defendant or defendants are charged with crimes of the same class, which are so connected in time or place as that evidence at the trial of one of the indictments…