STATE v. JENNINGS

No. 555A90.

430 S.E.2d 188 (1993)

333 N.C. 579

STATE of North Carolina v. Patricia Wells JENNINGS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 4, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

James R. Parish, Fayetteville, for defendant-appellant.


WHICHARD, Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally on an indictment charging her with the first-degree murder of her eighty-year-old husband, William Henry Jennings (hereinafter "Jennings"). The jury returned a verdict finding defendant guilty upon the theories of (1) premeditation and deliberation and (2) torture. Following a sentencing proceeding pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000, the jury recommended that defendant...

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