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Statutes > North-carolina > Chapter_14 > GS_14-7_9§14‑7.9. Charge of violent habitual felon.
An indictment that charges aperson who is a violent habitual felon within the meaning of G.S. 14‑7.7with the commission of any violent felony must, in order to sustain aconviction of violent habitual felon, also charge that the person is a violenthabitual felon. The indictment charging the defendant as a violent habitualfelon shall be separate from the indictment charging the defendant with theprincipal violent felony. An indictment that charges a person with being aviolent habitual felon must set forth the date that prior violent felonies werecommitted, the name of the state or other sovereign against whom the violentfelonies were committed, the dates of convictions of the violent felonies, andthe identity of the court in which the convictions took place. A defendantcharged with being a violent habitual felon in a bill of indictment shall notbe required to go to trial on that charge within 20 days after the finding of atrue bill by the grand jury unless the defendant waives this 20‑dayperiod. (1994, Ex. Sess., c. 22, s. 31.)
