STATE v. BONNER

Nos. 83A91, 85A91.

411 S.E.2d 598 (1992)

330 N.C. 536

STATE of North Carolina v. Calvin Antonio BONNER and Ronald Wayne Witherspoon.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by David F. Hoke, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Danny R. Ferguson, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellant Bonner.

Richard D. Ramsey and Thomas G. Taylor, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellant Witherspoon.


WHICHARD, Justice.

On 29 May 1990, defendants undertook, along with Gregory Gainey and El'Ricko Stewart, to rob the Steamboat Restaurant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In an attempt to thwart the robbery, Dallas Pruitt, an off-duty police officer acting as a security guard for the restaurant, shot and killed Gainey and Stewart. Following indictment, defendants pled guilty to, among other charges, two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of their coconspirators...

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