State v. Wright

BRITT, Judge;

Defendants O’Kelley and Williams assign as error the consolidation of their cases for trial with the cases of the other three defendants. There is no merit in this assignment. The court is authorized by G.S. 15-152 to order the consolidation for trial of two or more indictments in which the defendants are charged with crimes of the same class and which are so connected in time or place that evidence at the trial on one of thé indictments will be competent and admissible'at the trial on the others. State v. Bass, 280 N.C. 435, 186 S.E. 2d 384 (1972); State v. White, 256 N.C. 244,…