STATE v. HOLT

No. 85PA95.

464 S.E.2d 672 (1995)

342 N.C. 395

STATE of North Carolina v. Paul Degeofrey HOLT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 8, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by R. Kendrick Cleveland, Associate Attorney General, for State.

Wallace C. Harrelson, Public Defender, and Walter E. Jones, Assistant Public Defender, Greensboro, for defendant-appellant.


WHICHARD, Justice.

In a noncapital trial, defendant was convicted of the first-degree murder of Olin Brown and sentenced to life imprisonment. Trial counsel failed to perfect the appeal in a timely manner. On 4 May 1995 this Court allowed defendant's petition for a writ of certiorari and appointed Wallace C. Harrelson, Public Defender of Guilford County, as counsel on appeal. We now find no error in the trial.

The State's evidence, in pertinent summary, showed...

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