STATE v. SILER

No. 49.

234 S.E.2d 733 (1977)

292 N.C. 543

STATE of North Carolina v. Anthony Payne SILER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 10, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. David S. Crump, Raleigh, for the State.

Robert L. Gunn and Paul S. Messick, Jr., Pittsboro, for defendant-appellant.


COPELAND, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the court's failure to suppress two inculpatory statements made by him during in-custody interrogation in the absence of counsel and the subsequent admission of these statements into evidence over objection. Defendant claims there was no effective waiver of his constitutional right to counsel prior to interrogation.

Upon defendant's motions to suppress, two pre-trial hearings were held to consider the admissibility...

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