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  "id": 8554175,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. RAYMOND A. JONES",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Jones",
  "decision_date": "1970-11-18",
  "docket_number": "No. 7026SC500",
  "first_page": "726",
  "last_page": "727",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "judges": [
      "Chief Judge Mallard and Judge Parker concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. RAYMOND A. JONES"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "HEDRICK, Judge.\nThe defendant contends that the court committed prejudicial error in proceeding to trial without allowing the defendant to subpoena witnesses. This contention is without merit. The record discloses that when the defendant was being questioned by the judge as to the voluntary character of his plea of guilty, the defendant stated that he would like to have as a witness one Major Hugh A. Logan, Jr., for this witness could and would explain to the court that he, the Major, had told a Lt. Jordan to transfer the defendant, a prisoner, over to the Highway Patrol Office to a job that he was physically able to do. The solicitor stipulated that if the witness was present he would so testify. The court asked the defendant if the stipulation was satisfactory and if he still wanted the witness present. The defendant stated: \u201cNo, sir, that is fine.\u201d The record further discloses that the defendant entered a written plea of guilty, and that the trial judge signed an adjudication that the defendant\u2019s plea was \u201c . . . freely, understanding^ and voluntarily made, without undue influence, compulsion or duress, and without promise of leniency.\u201d\nWe have carefully examined the entire record and determine that the defendant pleaded guilty to a valid bill of indictment; that the sentence imposed is within the maximum prescribed for a violation of the statute, and that the defendant had a fair trial in the superior court free from prejudicial error.\nNo error.\nChief Judge Mallard and Judge Parker concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "HEDRICK, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Robert Morgan and Assistant Attorney General Millard R. Rich, Jr., for the State.",
      "Richard A. Vinroot for defendant appellant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. RAYMOND A. JONES\nNo. 7026SC500\n(Filed 18 November 1970)\nConstitutional Law \u00a7 31; Escape \u00a7 1\u2014 right to subpoena witnesses \u2014 stipulation by solicitor as to what witness would have testified\nIn this prosecution for escape from prison, defendant\u2019s contention that the trial court erred in proceeding to trial without allowing defendant to subpoena witnesses after defendant, while being questioned by the court as to the voluntariness of his plea of guilty, stated that he desired a certain witness to testify, held without merit where the solicitor stipulated what the witness would have testified if present at the trial, and defendant agreed that the stipulation was satisfactory and stated that he did not still want the witness present.\nAppeal by defendant, Raymond A. Jones, from Anglin, J., 9 April 1970 Session, Mecklenburg Superior Court.\nThe defendant Raymond A. Jones was charged in a bill of indictment, proper in form, with felonious escape in violation of G.S. 148-45 (a).\nThe defendant, an indigent, represented by his court-appointed attorney, entered a plea of guilty. From a judgment of imprisonment of eight months, the defendant appealed to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.\nAttorney General Robert Morgan and Assistant Attorney General Millard R. Rich, Jr., for the State.\nRichard A. Vinroot for defendant appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0726-01",
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  "last_page_order": 751
}