STATE v. FOX

No. 19.

175 S.E.2d 561 (1970)

STATE of North Carolina v. Roy Lee FOX.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 31, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., and Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., Raleigh, Staff Attys., for the State.

T. E. L. Lipsey, Asheville, for defendant appellant.


SHARP, Justice.

This case first came to us as a joint appeal by Roy Lee Fox and Carson McMahan, who had been tried with the other two defendants jointly indicted with them. Neither Roy Lee Fox nor Carson McMahan had testified, yet the confession of each, which implicated the other, had been admitted in evidence. This error necessitated a new trial and, in ordering it, we directed that defendants Roy Lee Fox and Carson McMahan be tried separately unless the State relinquished...

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