{
  "id": 8547773,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. HENRY WILLIAMS",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Williams",
  "decision_date": "1973-05-09",
  "docket_number": "No. 737SC383",
  "first_page": "145",
  "last_page": "146",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "18 N.C. App. 145"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 151,
    "char_count": 1901,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.525,
    "sha256": "7d36fec9a2f2fcabe966512ff652c78ae25315d445f1e01857edfc5dcc04986f",
    "simhash": "1:c9be0b4bf7669942",
    "word_count": 301
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T21:14:36.293491+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "Judges Campbell and Morris concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. HENRY WILLIAMS"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "VAUGHN, Judge.\nDefendant contends that, despite his waiver, the court should have appointed counsel to represent him at the preliminary hearing and at trial. This argument is without merit. A defendant may waive counsel. In the present case defendant\u2019s waivers were in writing and fully support the court\u2019s findings of record to the effect that defendant acted with full awareness of his right to counsel and the consequences of waiver thereof.\nDefendant\u2019s argument that the prison sentence of not less than eight nor more than ten years constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution of North Carolina is without merit. All of defendant\u2019s assignments of error have been considered and we find no prejudicial error.\nNo error.\nJudges Campbell and Morris concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "VAUGHN, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Robert Morgan by Ann Reed, Associate Attorney for the State.",
      "Joel K. Bourne for defendant appellant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. HENRY WILLIAMS\nNo. 737SC383\n(Filed 9 May 1973)\nConstitutional Law \u00a7 32\u2014 failure to appoint counsel \u2014 written waiver of counsel\nThe trial court did not err in failing to appoint counsel to represent defendant in his preliminary hearing and trial for felonious larceny where defendant in writing waived his right to counsel prior to his preliminary hearing and again before trial, and the court found that defendant acted with full awareness of his right to counsel and the consequences of waiver thereof.\nAppeal by defendant from Martin (Perry), Judge, 11 December 1972 Session of Superior Court held in Edgecombe County.\nDefendant was convicted of the felony of larceny. Prior to preliminary hearing- and again before trial he, in writing, waived his right to counsel. After judgment imposing a prison sentence was entered, defendant gave notice of appeal. Upon defendant\u2019s affidavit of indigency, Judge James, on 22 January 1973, appointed counsel to perfect appeal.\nAttorney General Robert Morgan by Ann Reed, Associate Attorney for the State.\nJoel K. Bourne for defendant appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0145-01",
  "first_page_order": 169,
  "last_page_order": 170
}