STATE v. GORDON

No. 39.

213 S.E.2d 708 (1975)

287 N.C. 118

STATE of North Carolina v. Richard GORDON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 6, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. James H. Carson, Jr. and Asst. Attys. Gen. Lester V. Chalmers, Jr. and Sidney S. Eagles, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

Lacy W. Blue, Charlotte, for defendant appellant.


MOORE, Justice.

Before pleading to the bills of indictment, defendant moved to dismiss for failure of the State to afford him a speedy trial. Defendant assigns as error the denial of this motion.

In support of his motion, defendant introduced death certificates of two possible witnesses, Isaac Harris and Mattie Howze. Harris was shot on 15 January 1974, while robbing a store, and died on 19 January 1974. Howze was doused with gasoline and set on fire on 29...

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