State v. Lindsey

CLARK, Judge.

The defendants objected to the consolidation for trial of the various charges against both of them. The trial court may, in its discretion, consolidate for trial multiple charges against a defendant, or multiple defendants-, where the charges are of the same class and so connected in time or place that evidence at the trial of one of the indictments will be competent and admissible at the trial of the others. G.S. 15-152; State v. White, 256 N.C. 244, 123 S.E. 2d 483 (1962) ; State v. Garcia, 16 N.C. App. 344, 192 S.E. 2d 2 (1972). Here the State’s evidence tended to show that…