STATE v. BRYANT

No. 47.

195 S.E.2d 509 (1973)

283 N.C. 227

STATE of North Carolina v. Levon BRYANT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerrans & Spence by C. E. Gerrans, Kinston, for defendant appellant.

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., William W. Melvin and William B. Ray, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State.


HUSKINS, Justice:

For his first assignment of error defendant says the court erred in denying his motion to quash the first degree murder charge. He argues that the action of the committing magistrate, who found "probable cause" of second degree murder only, amounted to a dismissal of the first degree murder charge and limited the State to second degree murder as the maximum charge for which defendant could be tried.

A district judge sitting as a committing...

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