STATE v. AVERY

No. 33.

212 S.E.2d 142 (1975)

286 N.C. 459

STATE of North Carolina v. James AVERY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 12, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan and Asst. Atty. Gen. Lester V. Chalmers, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

William W. Pritchett, Jr., Windsor, for defendant-appellant.


MOORE, Justice.

Defendant first contends that he was deprived of his constitutional right to trial by an impartial jury when the trial judge allowed juror Tilgiham to be dismissed upon challenge for cause by the State. Defendant asserts that Mrs. Tilgiham's objections to the death penalty were general and that she therefore should not have been dismissed for cause, citing Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed...

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