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State v. Hill

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided December 10, 1969No. 2PublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.

Article XI, Section 2, North Carolina Constitution, provides: “. . . murder, arson, burglary, and rape, and these only, may be punishable with death, if the General Assembly shall so enact.”

The General Assembly, by G.S. 14-17, provided: “Murder in the first and second degree defined; punishment. — A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, robbery, burglary or other felony, shall…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. State v. GraySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1966
  3. State v. AtkinsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1969
  4. United States Ex Rel. Hughes v. GaultSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  5. State v. ForcellaSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1968

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3Cited by56 opinions

  1. State v. LynchSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1971
  2. State v. ThompsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1972
  3. State v. DuboiseSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1971
  4. State v. McKoySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1990
  5. State v. PerrySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1986

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