STATE v. LOONEY

No. 47.

240 S.E.2d 612 (1978)

294 N.C. 1

STATE of North Carolina v. Jasper David LOONEY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 24, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by Charles M. Hensey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

William L. Senter and Joe McLeod, Fayetteville, for defendant.


LAKE, Justice.

The defendant contends that the offense of conspiracy to commit a murder is a lesser included offense of being accessory before the fact to such murder and, consequently, the court erred in failing to require the State to elect the charge upon which it would proceed and in imposing sentences for both offenses. In this contention we find no merit. G.S. 14-5 provides:

"Accessories before the fact; trial and punishment.

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