Opinion
Filed 27 September, 1967.
APPEAL by defendant from Bryson, J., March 1967 Regular Criminal Session of BUNCOMBE.
Attorney General Bruton and Staff Attorney Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., for the State.
Joseph Schenck for defendant.
Defendant and his codefendant, Barry Rocky Hilton, were jointly indicted in and were tried under nine indictments. The decisive facts and the law applicable on appeal in the instant case and in State v. Barry Rocky Hilton are identical. The defendant in each case entered pleas of guilty to the same charges contained in the same bills of indictment, and the defendant in each case was represented by the same court-appointed attorney. Identical sentences were imposed on Barry Rocky Hilton and Bobby Joe Johnson.
Upon authority of State v. Barry Rocky Hilton, ante, 456, and the cases therein cited, we hold that in the trial of the case below there was
No error.