State v. Bush

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant’s first assignment of error is as follows:

I. Was the Entry of the Judgment and Sentence of Death Unconstitutional in Violation of the Rights Guaranteed the Defendant Under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States?

The questions presented by this assignment of error were considered and answered by this Court in the case of State v. Woodson, 287 N.C. 578, 215 S.E. 2d 607. There Chief Justice Sharp, in part, wrote:

G.S. 14-17, as rewritten on 8 April 1974 by the enactment of N. C. Sess. Laws, ch. 1201, § 1 provides that mur der in the…