State v. Spencer

The defendant assigns as error the consolidation for trial of the two bills of indictment. This Court said in S. v. Combs, 200 N.C. *608671, 158 S.E. 252: “Tbe court is expressly authorized by statute in this State to order the consolidation for trial of two or more indictments in which the defendant or defendants are charged with crimes of the same class, which are so connected in time or place as that evidence at the trial of one of the indictments will be competent and admissible at the trial of the others.” G.S.N.C. 15-152.

The three defendants were charged with participating in the same…