STATE v. TURNER

No. 717SC369.

182 S.E.2d 244 (1971)

11 N.C. App. 670

STATE of North Carolina v. Lewis Edward TURNER.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan by Asst. Attys. Gen. William W. Melvin and T. Buie Costen, for the State.

Thorp & Etheridge by William D. Etheridge, Rocky Mount, and W. O. Rosser, Whitakers, for defendant appellant.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the actions of the trial judge in finding that defendant, by his absence from trial, waived his right to be present and in proceeding with the trial in defendant's absence. In a criminal prosecution it is the right of the accused to be present at the trial, unless he waives that right. State v. Pope, 257 N.C. 326, 126 S.E.2d 126 (1962). But where...

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