STATE v. BOYD

No. 547A88.

418 S.E.2d 471 (1992)

332 N.C. 101

STATE of North Carolina v. Kenneth Lee BOYD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Steven F. Bryant, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Sam J. Ervin, IV, Morganton, for defendant-appellant.


EXUM, Chief Justice.

Defendant was indicted in separate bills dated 16 May 1988 for the murders of his estranged wife and her father on 4 March 1988. In a capital trial the jury returned verdicts of guilty as charged. After a sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended, and the trial court accordingly entered, a sentence of death for each murder.

There are two assignments of error which merit discussion. The first relates to the trial court's excusing a juror...

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