State v. Gray

EXUM, Justice.

Upon separate bills of indictment defendant was tried and convicted of first degree rape (75-CR-2774), assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill resulting in serious bodily injury (75-CR-2775), and first degree burglary (75-CR-2776). He was sentenced, respectively, to death, twenty years imprisonment, and life imprisonment.

Incorporated within twenty questions presented in his brief, defendant brings forward some twenty-eight assignments of error, the most significant of which challenge the: (1) trial court’s refusal to appoint a private investigator and an expert witness…