STATE v. DAWSON

No. 36.

190 S.E.2d 196 (1972)

STATE of North Carolina v. Cephus Jerome DAWSON et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 31, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan and Associate Atty. Charles A. Lloyd, Raleigh, for the State.

Edward L. Williamson, Whiteville, for defendant appellants.


BOBBITT, Chief Justice.

Defendants' assignments of error based on exceptions to the denial of their motions for severance are without merit. Defendants were jointly indicted in a single bill for the rape of Mrs. Edell Hughes on July 18, 1971. The evidence upon which the State relied for the conviction of each relates to a single transaction and involves all defendants.

The record does not disclose what reason, if any, was advanced in the trial court in support...

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