STATE v. BENNETT

No. 745SC511.

207 S.E.2d 314 (1974)

22 N.C. App. 671

STATE of North Carolina v. Melvin Jerome BENNETT.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 7, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan by Asst. Atty. Gen. H. A. Cole, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

Thomas I. Benton, Wilmington, for defendant appellant.


MORRIS, Judge.

We are unable to sustain defendant's assignment of error to the denial of the motion to sequester witnesses and to the denial of motion for mistrial grounded upon apparent noncompliance with the order to sequester that was ultimately entered. This jurisdiction has long followed the rule that segregation, separation, or exclusion of witnesses is not a matter of right, but of discretion on the part of the trial judge. The exercise of such discretion is...

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