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STATE v. WILLIAMS

No. 25.

212 S.E.2d 113 (1975)

286 N.C. 422

STATE of North Carolina v. Bryant Henry WILLIAMS, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 12, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan and Asst. Atty. Gen. Thomas B. Wood, Raleigh, for the State.

W. Arnold Smith, Raleigh, for defendant.

LAKE, Justice.

Approximately two-thirds of the defendant's brief is directed to his Assignment of Error No. 1, which reads:

"The Court erred in allowing the Solicitor to ask members of the jury panel questions regarding their moral or religious scruples about the death penalty in that such question eliminated all prospective jurors approved [opposed?] to capital punishment and denied defendant the right to be tried by a cross-section of his peers." ...

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