State v. Spaulding

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendants assign as error the ruling of the trial judge allowing the cases to be consolidated for trial. Each defendant contends that his constitutional right of confrontation and cross-examination as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution was violated by the reception of evidence of admissions by one of his codefendants which implicated him in the crime charged which evidence was inadmissible against him.

The trial judge may, in his discretion, order the consolidation for trial of two or more indictments in which the defendants are charged with…