State v. Alford

HUSKINS, Justice.

Defendant, an indigent, assigns as error the refusal of the trial court to appoint a private investigator for the purpose of assisting him in his defense. Defendant contends such denial of his pretrial motion for appointment of an investigator deprived him of his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel and violated the provisions of G.S. 7A-450(b), which requires the State to provide an indigent defendant “with counsel and the other necessary expenses of representation.”

We fully considered the questions presented by this assignment in State v. Gray, 292 N.C.…