State v. Sinclair

EXUM, Justice.

Defendant was charged in fourteen indictments each containing one count of forgery and one count of uttering a forged instrument. On 4 December 1978 she entered pleas of not guilty to all charges. At the 19 February 1979 Criminal Session of Edgecombe Superior Court, Judge Frank R. Brown presiding, the state called only six indictments to be consolidated for trial. The jury returned guilty verdicts in all cases. Defendant then pleaded no contest to all counts in the remaining eight indictments. In the six jury cases the Court of Appeals unanimously held that the state’s evidence…