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STATE v. HUNT

No. 5A86-8.

582 S.E.2d 593 (2003)

357 N.C. 257

STATE of North Carolina v. Henry Lee HUNT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 16, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper, Attorney General by G. Patrick Murphy, Barry S. McNeill, and William P. Hart, Special Deputy Attorneys General, for the State.

D. Stuart Meiklejohn, pro hac vice, and Steven L. Holley, pro hac vice, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Hunter, Higgins, Miles, Elan & Benjamin by Robert Neal Hunter, Jr.; and Gaskins & Gaskins by Herman E. Gaskins, Jr., on behalf of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae.

Louis D. Bilionis on behalf of North Carolina Law Professors Anthony V. Baker; Sara Sun Beale; Louis D. Bilionis; John Charles Boger; Kenneth S. Broun; James E. Coleman, Jr.; Michael Kent Curtis; Marshall L. Dayan; Irving Joyner; Robert P. Mosteller; Eric L. Muller; Gene R. Nichol; J. Wilson Parker; H. Jefferson Powell; Richard A. Rosen; Fred J. Williams; and Ronald F. Wright, Jr., amici curiae.

North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys by William D. Kenerly, amicus curiae.

BRADY, Justice.

Henry Lee Hunt (petitioner), convicted of two capital murders over seventeen years ago, challenges the lawfulness of the charging instruments used to indict him for first-degree murder. These instruments, known as "short-form indictments," have been used to charge murder suspects under North Carolina law for over a hundred years. This appeal therefore raises a question of critical importance to the legal...

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