State v. Peele

HIGGINS, Justice.

The bills of indictment charged armed robbery and murder committed in the perpetration of the robbery. The defendant’s witness Calloway had already been tried and entered pleas of guilty on the identical charges. The State’s pre-sentence testimony on the charges against Calloway was transcribed and a copy was delivered to the defense counsel in response to the motion for discovery filed at the beginning of the hearing. The disclosure statute, Chapter 1064, Session Laws of 1967, now G.S. § 15-155.4, was enacted after this Court’s decision in State v. Goldberg, 261 N.C. 181,…