STATE v. SHARPE

No. 28.

200 S.E.2d 44 (1973)

284 N.C. 157

STATE of North Carolina v. Terry Franklin SHARPE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 14, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan and Asst. Atty. Gen. Walter E. Ricks, III, Raleigh, for the State.

George S. Daly, Jr., Charlotte, for defendant-appellant.


MOORE, Justice.

The sole assignment of error preserved by defendant and brought forward on appeal is whether hairs taken from defendant's head and arm were obtained in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Defendant does not contend, and properly so, that the plucking and seizure of his hair was a violation of his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. In Schmerber v. California,

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