STATE v. RAINEY

No. 70A89.

415 S.E.2d 337 (1992)

331 N.C. 259

STATE of North Carolina v. Michael Leslie RAINEY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 22, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Valerie B. Spalding, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Stephen P. Lindsay, Asheville, for defendant-appellant.


MEYER, Justice.

On 3 April 1988, defendant, who had no prior criminal record, shot six people, three of whom died as a result of their wounds, in the parking lot of Mountain Home Baptist Church in Henderson County. Defendant was subsequently indicted on and convicted, in a capital trial, of three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. In each of the murder cases, the jury found...

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