STATE v. STEPHENS

No. 18.

266 S.E.2d 588 (1980)

STATE of North Carolina v. Joel Dean STEPHENS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Edwin M. Spease, Jr., Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Ben G. Irons, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Bell & Browne, P.A. by Deane F. Bell and Charles T. Browne, Asheboro, for defendant-appellant.


HUSKINS, Justice:

Defendant challenges the trial court's refusal to suppress certain incriminating statements defendant made immediately following a polygraph test administered to him by SBI Agent Steve Davenport. Admission of the statements constitutes defendant's fifteenth and sixteenth assignments of error. We first ascertain the factual basis for these assignments.

The record reveals that defendant and his attorney, William Heafner, were present in the...

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