STATE v. PHILLIPS

No. 205A88.

399 S.E.2d 293 (1991)

328 N.C. 1

STATE of North Carolina v. Anne PHILLIPS and Sylvester Phillips.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 10, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Ellen B. Scouten, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Michael W. Willis and T. Craig Wright, Whiteville, for defendant-appellant Ann Phillips.

H. Clifton Hester, Elizabethtown and Don W. Viets, Jr., Whiteville, for defendant-appellant Sylvester Phillips.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, Raleigh, for Office of the Appellate Defender, amicus curiae.

Benjamin B. Sendor, Asst. Appellate Defender, Raleigh, pro hac vice.


FRYE, Justice.

On 6 October 1987, the Bladen County Grand Jury indicted both defendants on first degree murder and felony child abuse charges. The murder indictments charged each defendant with the first degree murder of Tameka Lehmann, on 14 June 1987, in violation of N.C.G.S. § 14-17. The child abuse indictments charged each defendant with, on the same date, intentionally inflicting serious physical injury on John Phillips, age thirteen, in violation of N.C...

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