STATE v. KING

No. 533A89.

392 S.E.2d 609 (1990)

326 N.C. 662

STATE of North Carolina v. Jerry Lynn KING.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by G. Patrick Murphy and John H. Watters, Asst. Attys. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Randy Meares, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.


MEYER, Justice.

On 9 May 1988, defendant was indicted for first-degree burglary, robbery with a deadly weapon, and first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Nancy Brown Covington on 18 August 1986. The offenses were joined for trial on 28 April 1989, and the case was tried before a jury at the 29 May 1989 Criminal Session of Superior Court, Catawba County, Judge Robert M. Burroughs presiding. The jury found defendant guilty of first-degree murder on theories of...

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