STATE v. CARTER

No. 319A93.

464 S.E.2d 272 (1995)

342 N.C. 312

STATE of North Carolina v. Desmond Keith CARTER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 8, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by G. Patrick Murphy, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, Durham, for defendant-appellant.


WHICHARD, Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally for the first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon of Helen Purdy, his neighbor. The jury found defendant guilty on both charges and recommended a sentence of death for the first-degree murder. The trial court sentenced accordingly on the murder charge and sentenced defendant to forty years in prison for the robbery, to begin at the expiration of the murder sentence...

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