STATE v. WOODS

No. 13.

213 S.E.2d 214 (1975)

286 N.C. 612

STATE of North Carolina v. Vernon Junior WOODS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Sidney S. Eagles, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

John H. McMurray, Morganton, and Bruce W. Vanderbloemen, Lenoir, for defendant-appellant.


MOORE, Justice.

Defendant first assigns as error the action of the trial court in allowing the State to challenge peremptorily without cause more than nine jurors. It was stipulated that the State peremptorily excused eleven jurors and the record shows that the defendant peremptorily excused thirteen. The trial court ruled that the State had twenty-two peremptory challenges and that the defendant had thirty-four.

Defendant was charged with two capital crimes...

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