STATE v. SPELLER

No. 145.

57 S.E.2d 759 (1950)

231 N.C. 549

STATE v. SPELLER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 8, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry M. McMullan, Atty. Gen., and Hughes J. Rhodes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Herman L. Taylor, Raleigh, and C. J. Gates, Durham, for defendant.


STACY, Chief Justice.

For the third time the defendant appeals from a conviction of rape, without any recommendation from the jury, and sentence of death as the law commands in such cases. On the prior appeals, reported in 229 N.C. 67, 47 S.E.2d 537, and 230 N.C. 345, 53 S.E.2d 294, new trials were ordered for jury defect and for failure to allow defendant sufficient time or opportunity to present his challenge to the array.

On the present hearing, all charges...

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