State v. Sanders

ORDER

THIS case was hear.d 9 March 1987 on defendant’s appeal from a judgment of death entered at the 4 February 1985 Criminal Session of Superior Court, TRANSYLVANIA County, Winberry, J., presiding. This was defendant’s second trial. On defendant’s appeal from his first trial, conducted at the 28 June 1982 Criminal Session of Superior Court, TRANSYLVANIA County, this Court summarily vacated the judgments against him and remanded for a new trial because of gross inadequacies in the trial transcript. State v. Sanders, 312 N.C. 318, 321 S.E. 2d 836 (1984).

One issue raised on appeal is whether…