State v. Miller
Decision Date | 31 August 1972 |
Docket Number | No. 132,132 |
Citation | 190 S.E.2d 841,281 N.C. 740 |
Parties | STATE of North Carolina v. Roger Vernon MILLER. |
Court | North Carolina Supreme Court |
On remand from the Supreme Court of the United States.
At the September 8, 1969 Session, Duplin Superior Court, the defendant, Roger Vernon Miller, was tried and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. Upon defendant's appeal this Court found no error in the verdict and judgment of the Superior Court. State v. Miller, 276 N.C. 681, 174 S.E.2d 481. The defendant then filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States, 408 U.S. 937, 92 S.Ct. 2863, 33 L.Ed.2d 755. On June 29, 1972, this Court received from the Supreme Court of the United States the following mandate:
MICHAEL RODAK, JR.
v.
North Carolina"
The opinion in Stewart v. Massachusetts, referred to in the foregoing mandate, is as follows:
Pursuant to the foregoing mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States vacating the death penalty imposed on the defendant, this cause is remanded to the Superior Court of Duplin County with directions to proceed...
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