STATE v. AUSTIN

No. 297A86.

357 S.E.2d 641 (1987)

STATE of North Carolina v. Norris AUSTIN

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Charles M. Hensey, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Lawrence D. McMahon, Jr. and Sam J. Ervin, IV, Morganton, for defendant.


MARTIN, Justice.

The state's evidence at trial tended to show the following: In April 1985 defendant and Mary Sue "Susie" Blankenship White were living together in a house on Jenkins Road in Burke County with Susie's two daughters, Sheila Renee, aged nineteen, who was mentally handicapped, and Christy, aged fourteen. They had lived together as a family for about eight years. Defendant had received total disability from Social Security because of some serious injuries...

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