STATE v. HEAVENER

No. 8.

259 S.E.2d 227 (1979)

298 N.C. 541

STATE of North Carolina v. Michael Lee HEAVENER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 6, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Thomas B. Wood, Raleigh, for the state.

Asst. Public Defender Larry B. Langson, Gastonia, for defendant-appellant.


BRITT, Justice.

Defendant argues two assignments of error. By his first one, he contends that the trial court erred in not suppressing his alleged statements to police. This assignment has no merit.

Before any evidence was presented at trial, defendant moved to suppress the statements he allegedly made to police because he did not fully understand the rights he was entitled to assert as a criminal defendant. The...

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