State v. Chambers

HILL, Judge.

Prior to the selection of the jury, the trial judge advised the prospective jurors as follows:

[T]he defendant is accused in a bill of indictment returned by the Grand Jury at the July 8, 1980 Session, and in that bill of indictment it is alleged that on 21 April 1980 he broke and entered a building at 700 Washington Street used by Stone Brothers and Byrd Farm Supply as a repair shop; that when he did so he had the intent to steal, commit larceny.

Defendant contends in his first assignment of error that the judge’s statement advised the jury that defendant had been indicted by the…