STATE v. McCOTTER

No. 56.

217 S.E.2d 525 (1975)

288 N.C. 227

STATE of North Carolina v. Samuel McCOTTER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 27, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., R. Bruce White, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., and Zoro J. Guice, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Michael P. Flanagan, New Bern, for defendant-appellee.


SHARP, Chief Justice.

In criminal practice arraignment is the formal act of calling a defendant by name to the bar of the court, informing him of the offense with which he is charged, demanding of him whether he is guilty or not guilty, and entering his plea. See Crain v. United States, 162 U.S. 625, 637-638, 16 S.Ct. 952, 956, 40 L.Ed. 1097, 1100 (1896); Ballentine's Law Dictionary (1948 Ed.); Black's Law Dictionary ...

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