STATE v. WOODS

No. 229A82.

297 S.E.2d 574 (1982)

STATE of North Carolina v. Cleaster WOODS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Charles M. Hensey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Reginald L. Frazier, New Bern, and Bowen C. Tatum, Jr., North Jacksonville, for defendant.


CARLTON, Justice.

I.

Defendant, Cleaster Woods, was indicted for the murder of her husband, Leinster Woods, and for conspiring with Danny Lee Nichols to kill Leinster Woods. At the guilt-innocence phase of the trial Nichols, the State's chief witness, testified as follows under a plea arrangement:

Nichols and defendant were lovers. About two weeks before defendant's husband was killed, defendant talked to Nichols about a life insurance policy which...

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