Court Opinion

ID: 6731516
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:13:03.136653+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:39.971911
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CAMPBELL, Judge.
The evidence on behalf of the State discloses that on Sunday, 15 July 1973, the defendant was serving a sentence in the North Carolina Department of Corrections, Subsidiary Unit No. 4635, located in Cleveland County. The sentence was from five to ten years imposed at the 27 October 1971 Session of the Superior Court of Guilford County for the felony of conspiracy to commit false pretense. About 2:30 p.m., during visiting hours, the defendant escaped and was later apprehended about 10:00 p.m. the same day at a point some two miles away.
On 25 July 1973, counsel was appointed for the defendant and conferred with the defendant. It was determined that the defendant would submit a plea of guilty to the charge. The case was calendared for trial on 21 August 1973, and some 10 or 15 minutes before the case was called for trial, the defendant advised his counsel that he desired to have the case continued to be heard before another judge. In order to accomplish this, the defendant told his attorney that he would enter a plea of not guilty and that he would seek a continuance on the ground that he desired some witnesses whose names he did not know and whose whereabouts he did not know, and neither was he able to inform his attorney as to what testimony he would elicit from them. The attorney did request a continuance, and frankly advised the court that he did not know the names of the witnesses or their whereabouts or the substance of their testimony. The motion for a continuance was denied. The granting of a continuance was within the discretion of the trial judge, and no abuse of' that discretion appears in this record.
The appeal presents the face of the record for review. We have reviewed the record, and we find
No error.
Judges Hedrick and Baley concur.