State v. Long

MORRIS, Chief Judge.

Defendants make thirty-one assignments of error on appeal. In their first assignment, they argue that the trial judge was overly brief in his statement of the charges to the prospective jurors. Defendants concede that G.S. 15A-1213 requires only that the judge “briefly inform” prospective jurors of the charges against each defendant and specifically prohibits the judge from reading the pleadings. Nevertheless, defendants contend that in this case the judge should have stated the charges in their entirety and explained the elements thereof rather than saying only that…