State v. Byrd

WELLS, Judge.

Defendant first assigns as error the trial court’s granting, over his objection, of the State’s motion that all the charges against defendant be joined for trial. As grounds for its motion, the State asserted that all of the charges against defendant were based on the same act or series of acts or transactions connected together or constituting part of a single scheme or plan. See G.S. 15A-926 (a). Defendant argues that joining the assault charges resulted in inflaming the jury against defendant with respect to the breaking and entering and larceny charges; that the assault on…