STATE v. HOWIE

No. 311PA83.

313 S.E.2d 554 (1984)

310 N.C. 613

STATE of North Carolina v. Zolta Antoine HOWIE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Grayson G. Kelley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Steven A. Grossman, Kannapolis, Atty., for defendant-appellant.


MEYER, Justice.

At trial the State's evidence tended to show that on 8 November 1978, the victim, Raleigh Winfield Combs, was working as a service station attendant at what was then the Davis Oil Company in Kannapolis. At approximately 7:30 p.m. a black man wearing a ski mask entered the station and stated, "This is a robbery." He shot Mr. Combs five times, saying as he did so, "You die, you damn yellow son of a bitch." Mr. Combs suffered gunshot wounds to his throat...

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