State v. Creech

MORRIS, Judge.

Defendant’s first assignment of error is directed to the court’s allowing the State’s motion to consolidate for trial all three charges against defendant. He argues that consolidation violated “his constitutional right against self-incrimination provided by the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and Article 1, Section 23 of the Constitution of the State of North Carolina” because he did not intend to testify in the kidnapping and crime against nature case but did intend to testify in the rape case.

G.S. 15A-926(a) provides that…