State v. Spaulding

219 S.E.2d 178 (1975)

288 N.C. 397

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Cardell SPAULDING et al.

No. 4.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 5, 1975.

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Lester V. Chalmers, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

W. Lunsford Crew, Roanoke Rapids, for defendant-appellant Spaulding.

William F. Dickens, Jr., Enfield, for defendant-appellant Cobb.

H. P. McCoy, Jr., Scotland Neck, for defendant-appellant Walters.

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendants assign as error the ruling of the trial judge allowing the cases to be consolidated for trial. Each defendant contends that his constitutional…