State v. Pope

WEBB, Justice.

By his first assignment of error, the defendant contends that the trial court erred by receiving into evidence the transcript of the suppression hearing conducted in the Wake County murder case, and by incorporating that court’s order into its own order denying the defendant’s motion to suppress. The defendant’s objection to the trial court’s procedure was overruled.

The Wake County motion was heard during the 6 June 1988 criminal session of superior court. The motion in this case was heard 12 August 1988. The issues in both cases, and the evidence presented thereon, were…