STATE v. TREXLER

No. 626A85.

342 S.E.2d 878 (1986)

STATE of North Carolina v. Richard Lewis TREXLER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by W. Dale Talbert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for State.

Roberts, Cogburn, McClure & Williams by Max O. Cogburn, Isaac N. Northup, Jr., and Glenn S. Gentry, Asheville, for defendant-appellee.

Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James & Harkavy by Charles A. Lloyd, Greensboro, for Greensboro Criminal Defense Lawyer's Ass'n, amicus curiae.


BRANCH, Chief Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether the majority of the panel in the Court of Appeals correctly determined that the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to dismiss on the basis that the State had failed to prove the corpus delicti of the charged offense. The majority felt that it was bound by this Court's decision in State v. Brown, 308 N.C. 181, 301...

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