STATE v. WHITE

No. 65.

259 S.E.2d 281 (1979)

298 N.C. 430

STATE of North Carolina v. Thomas Gordon WHITE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 6, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Christopher P. Brewer, Raleigh, for the state.

Daniel H. Monroe and W. O. Shue, Graham, for defendant-appellant.


BRITT, Justice.

By his first assignment of error, defendant contends the trial court committed reversible error by instructing prospective jurors that he was charged with first-degree murder and that, if he was found guilty, he could receive the death penalty, when in fact the death penalty was not applicable to this case. This assignment has no merit.

When this case was called for trial, the court instructed the prospective jurors that defendant was charged...

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