STATE v. HUNT

No. 65.

254 S.E.2d 19 (1979)

297 N.C. 131

STATE of North Carolina v. Adnell HUNT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. and Thomas F. Moffitt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Adelaide G. Behan, Lumberton, for defendant.


SHARP, Chief Justice.

Defendant's first assignment of error is that the trial judge permitted his case to be tried by jurors who, on the morning of his trial, had the opportunity to hear "a number of pleas and sentences imposed" in other and unrelated cases. Defendant argues that this situation violated the spirit of G.S. 15A-943 and "created a jury biased against him." His thesis is that "after hearing police officers testify in three or four other cases in which...

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