State v. Cottingham

PARKER, Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant, Frederick James Cottingham, from the same trial at which his co-defendants, Eugene McKenzie and Patricia Ann McKenzie, were also found guilty. Each of the three defendants appealed. Their attorneys caused three separate records on appeal to be filed in this Court. There should have been but one. Rule 11(d), North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure. For the reasons stated by Chief Judge Brock in the opinion in State v. Patricia Ann McKenzie, case No. 7620SC74, which is filed contemporaneously herewith, defendant Cottingham’s court appointed…