STATE v. RUTH

No. 9.

170 S.E.2d 897 (1969)

STATE of North Carolina v. Johnny RUTH.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan and Deputy Atty. Gen. Ralph Moody, for the State.

Jerry L. Jarvis, Durham, for defendant.


LAKE, Justice.

The defendant concedes that there was no error in sustaining the State's challenges for cause to those jurors who stated upon voir dire examination that they would not return a verdict which would require the death sentence in any case, regardless of the evidence. His sole assignment of error is directed to the allowance of the State's challenges to seven prospective jurors who stated simply a general objection to or conscientious scruples against the...

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