Legal Opinion

State v. Braxton

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided April 17, 1978No. 17PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LAKE, Justice.

The four defendants were represented by separate counsel, both at trial and on appeal. Each appealed from a sentence to life imprisonment imposed upon him. Their assignments of error are not the same in all respects and they filed separate briefs. Consequently, we discuss their appeals separately.

APPEAL OF THE DEFENDANT BRAXTON

In his statement of the case on appeal, the defendant Braxton assigned as error: (1) The admission of various portions of the State’s evidence, this assignment being based upon 35 unrelated exceptions; (2) the denial of 18 motions of widely varying nature…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. State v. CovingtonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1976
  3. State v. GraySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1966
  4. State v. GoinesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1968
  5. State v. FoxSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1968

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. State v. BarfieldSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1979
  2. State v. SilhanSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1981
  3. State v. NelsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1979
  4. State v. WeeksSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1988
  5. State v. FortnerWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1989

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