State v. Pierce

PARKER, Judge.

There was no error in consolidating the cases for trial. G.S. 15A-926(b)(2)b.2 provides that charges against two or more defendants may be joined for trial when the offenses charged “[w]ere part of the same act or transaction.” Here, each defendant was charged with committing the same breaking and entering, and each defendant was charged with committing larceny after such breaking and entering, albeit of different items of property.

Whether defendants charged with committing identical offenses at the same time and place should be jointly or separately tried is within the sound…