State v. White

Defendant’s first assignment of error is based on exception to the order of the court consolidating the bills of indictment for trial.

Each bill charged a felony of the same nature — receiving stolen goods of the value of more than one hundred dollars, knowing them to have been stolen. G.S. 14-71. The indictments allege separate offenses, two occurring on December 1, 1959, one on October 17, 1960, and one on December 7, 1960. The goods received belonged to four different persons, a different person on each occasion. The State’s evidence tends to show that on the first three occasions the goods…