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STATE v. WILLIAMS

No. 661.

165 S.E.2d 481 (1969)

275 N.C. 77

STATE v. Carl Leonard WILLIAMS and Eddie Joel Williams.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 31, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Wade Bruton, Atty. Gen., and Harry W. McGalliard, Deputy Atty. Gen., for the State.

MacRae, Cobb, MacRae & Henley, Fayetteville, for defendant appellant Carl Leonard Williams.

Charles G. Rose, Jr., Fayetteville, for defendant appellant Eddie Joel Williams.

BOBBITT, Justice.

Defendants assign as error the action of the court "in excusing from the jury those jurors who expressed the personal conviction that they were opposed to capital punishment." This assignment is based solely on the following statement in the agreed case on appeal: "In the selection of the jury the court excused from the jury all those jurors who stated that they were opposed to Capital Punishment. EXCEPTION NO. 1." Defendants rely upon Witherspoon...

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