State v. Neely
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
On certiorari to review a trial before McLean, Judge. Judgment entered 21 November 1972 in Superior Court, Gaston County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 17 June 1975. Defendant was convicted of armed robbery, and a sentence “for a period not to exceed twenty-five years” was imposed. On 15 February 1972 Barbara Dow and Dorothy Seward were working at the Dow Grocery Store in Gastonia. The defendant entered the store, threatened the two women with a gun, and demanded money.
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On certiorari to review a trial before McLean, Judge. Judgment entered 21 November 1972 in Superior Court, Gaston County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 17 June 1975. Defendant was convicted of armed robbery, and a sentence “for a period not to exceed twenty-five years” was imposed. On 15 February 1972 Barbara Dow and Dorothy Seward were working at the Dow Grocery Store in Gastonia. The defendant entered the store, threatened the two women with a gun, and demanded money. Mrs. Dow gave him $62.00, and defendant left, fleeing on foot. Mrs. Seward subsequently spent a considerable amount of time…
1Opinion of the Court
BROCK, Chief Judge.
[1] The main assignment of error presented in this appeal is directed to the lack of a complete stenographic transcript of the trial proceedings. The court reporter at the trial died prior to the transcription of the trial proceedings. The other official court reporter for Gaston County supervised the preparation of the transcript of the trial. However, a complete transcript could not be prepared because of difficulties in interpreting the audio-graph recordings and because of the method by which notes of the trial were taken. The result is that the stenographic transcript…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1971
- State v. GaineySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1972
- State v. SandersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1971
- State v. BlackSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1973
- State v. NeelyCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1974
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