State v. Carey

LAKE, Justice.

It was clearly error for the trial judge to refuse to permit the defendant (and the State) to interrogate prospective jurors concerning their views with reference to the imposition of the death penalty upon one convicted of murder in the first degree, and also error to refuse to permit the defendant, in his argument to the jury, to inform the jury that, under the law of this State, the prescribed punishment for murder in the first degree is death. State v. Anthony Douglas Carey, 285 N.C. 497, 206 S.E. 2d 213, decided this day; State v. Britt, 285 N.C. 256, 204 S.E. 2d 817.…