STATE v. ROBEY

No. 8719SC323.

371 S.E.2d 711 (1988)

91 N.C. App. 198

STATE of North Carolina v. Ellen Jones ROBEY and Richard Dale Barnes.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Asst. Atty. Gen. Steven F. Bryant, Raleigh, for the State.

Appellate Defender Malcolm Ray Hunter Jr. by Asst. Appellate Defender Geoffrey C. Mangum, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant Ellen Jones Robey.

Mary K. Nicholson, Greensboro, for defendant-appellant Richard Dale Barnes.


GREENE, Judge.

This appeal arises from the joint trial and conviction of Ellen Robey for second-degree murder and Richard Barnes as her accessory-after-the-fact. The evidence tended to show that Thomas Robey was murdered on Christmas Eve, 1984. Based upon a confession by the victim's stepson, Michael Perdue, Perdue was originally charged with Robey's murder while Ms. Robey and Barnes were charged with being accessories-after-the-fact for allegedly helping to conceal...

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