STATE v. WARD

No. 88.

210 S.E.2d 407 (1974)

286 N.C. 304

STATE of North Carolina v. Mamie Lee WARD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., and John R. B. Matthis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning by Adam Stein, Chapel Hill, and Howard A. Knox, Jr., Rocky Mount, for defendant appellant.


MOORE, Justice.

The record discloses that in the selection of the jury "the solicitor was allowed to challenge for cause 18 prospective jurors after said 18 jurors stated on voir dire that he or she would not under any circumstances, regardless of the evidence, consider joining in a verdict the result of which the death penalty would be imposed, but would automatically vote against such a verdict regardless of the evidence and would not even consider such a verdict...

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