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STATE v. CANIPE

No. 291.

81 S.E.2d 173 (1954)

240 N.C. 60

STATE v. CANIPE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 7, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., and T. W. Bruton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Horn & West and A. A. Powell, Shelby, for the prisoner.

ERVIN, Justice.

Every person charged with crime has an absolute right to a fair trial. By this it is meant that he is entitled to a trial before an impartial judge and an unprejudiced jury in an atmosphere of judicial calm. State v. Carter, 233 N.C. 581, 65 S.E.2d 9.

We are confronted at the threshold of this appeal by the assignments of error which assert, in essence, that the able and just...

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