STATE v. SOWELL

No. 8516SC1083.

342 S.E.2d 541 (1986)

STATE of North Carolina v. James Curtis SOWELL and Lonnie Alonya Samuel.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Associate Atty. J. Charles Waldrup, Chapel Hill, for the State.

Acting Appellate Defender Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr. by Asst. Appellate Defender Gordon Widenhouse, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant Samuel.

Smith and Jobe by Bruce F. Jobe, Lumberton, for defendant-appellant Sowell.


MARTIN, Judge.

I

In his sole assignment of error relating to the trial, defendant Samuel contends that his constitutional rights were violated when a law enforcement officer, Detective Franklin Lovette, was permitted to testify that Samuel declined to talk with him until he had conferred with an attorney. Detective Lovette testified that he had attempted to interview Samuel while Samuel was in the hospital in Dillon, S.C. The following colloquy occurred...

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