State v. Marlow

COPELAND, Justice.

The State brings forward two assignments of error addressing the two issues ruled upon by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. That court held that the defendant’s statutory right to a speedy trial had been violated and that he also had been improperly joined for trial with co-defendant Tena Marion. For the reasons discussed below, we find error with regard to the Court *513of Appeals’ determination of the speedy trial issue, but not with their improper joinder holding.

The defendant, in his brief to this Court, not only replied to the State’s two assignments of error, but also…