STATE v. THOMAS

No. 699SC344.

168 S.E.2d 459 (1969)

5 N.C. App. 448

STATE of North Carolina v. Willie THOMAS.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., by Harrison Lewis, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Claude W. Harris, Raleigh, Trial Atty., for the State.

Sterling G. Gilliam, and James C. Cooper, Jr., Henderson, for defendant.


BROCK, Judge.

In support of his contention that he acted in self-defense, defendant offered evidence of specific threats of violence towards defendant by deceased, and of specific acts and threats of violence by deceased towards defendant's daughter (wife of deceased).

In rebuttal the State offered the testimony of Sparkwood Burwell, employer of deceased, and of Leonard Perry, Jr., a brother-in-law of deceased. By the testimony of these witnesses the State...

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