STATE v. FREEMAN

No. 695A84.

333 S.E.2d 743 (1985)

STATE of North Carolina v. Roger Lee FREEMAN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Claude W. Harris, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. and Charles M. Hensey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Robert L. McClellan, Asst. Public Defender for the Eighteenth Judicial District, High Point, for the defendant-appellant.


MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant brings forward assignments of error in which he contends that the indictment for first degree kidnapping is fatally defective and that the trial court erred in denying him the right to exercise a peremptory challenge. We conclude that the indictment for kidnapping is not defective. The trial court's error in denying the defendant the use of his remaining peremptory challenge, however, entitles him to a new trial.

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