STATE v. PRUITT

No. 30.

212 S.E.2d 92 (1975)

286 N.C. 442

STATE of North Carolina v. Frank PRUITT, II.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 12, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Donald W. Grimes, Fayetteville, for defendant.


BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant first contends that the trial court erred in denying his motions to quash each bill of indictment on grounds that the North Carolina statutes imposing the death penalty for the crimes charged are unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. This Court considered and rejected this identical argument in State v. Jarrette, 284 N.C. 625,

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