STATE v. SMITH

No. 63A87.

362 S.E.2d 159 (1987)

321 N.C. 290

STATE of North Carolina v. Curtis Eugene SMITH.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Isaac T. Avery, III, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. and H. Julian Philpott, Jr., Associate Atty. Gen., for State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender by Mark D. Montgomery, Asst. Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellant.


WEBB, Justice.

The defendant assigns error to the court's failure to find two mitigating circumstances, the first being that "prior to arrest or at an early stage of the criminal process, the defendant voluntarily acknowledged wrongdoing in connection with the offense to a law enforcement officer." N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.4(a)(2)l

The assignment of error brings to the Court the question of whether a defendant may...

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