State v. Craft

CLARK, Judge.

Defendants have submitted separate briefs, but have raised the same three questions. The questions are not related to perti nent assignments of error and exceptions as required by North' Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure 28(b) (3).

Defendants first assign error to the consolidation of their trials and rely upon State v. Alford, 289 N.C. 372, 222 S.E. 2d 222 (1976). It is well settled that consolidation is in the discretion of the trial judge, and, in the absence of a showing that a joint trial has deprived a defendant of a fair trial, the exercise of the judge’s discretion…