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STATE v. WILDS

No. COA98-797.

515 S.E.2d 466 (1999)

STATE of North Carolina v. Curtis Eugene WILDS.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 18, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Michael F. Easley, by Assistant Attorney General Dennis P. Myers, for the State.

White & Crumpler, by David B. Freedman, Dudley A. Witt, and Laurie A. Schlossberg, Winston-Salem, and Causey & Nixon, L.L.P., by William G. Causey, Jr. and Alec Carpenter, High Point, for defendant-appellant.

EAGLES, Chief Judge.

We first determine whether the trial court abused its discretion when it denied defendant's request for a pre-trial, so-called Watson hearing to determine whether the evidence was sufficient for the case to proceed to trial as a capital case. See State v. Watson, 310 N.C. 384, 312 S.E.2d 448 (1984). The trial court refused to hold a pre-trial hearing on the basis...

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