STATE v. WOOTEN

No. 208A94.

474 S.E.2d 360 (1996)

344 N.C. 316

STATE of North Carolina v. Vincent Monte WOOTEN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by Michael S. Fox, Assistant Attorney General, for State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, and J. Michael Smith, Assistant Appellate Defender, Durham, for defendant-appellant.


MITCHELL, Chief Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally upon an indictment charging him with first-degree murder in the killing of Edward Maurice Wilson. The jury returned a verdict finding defendant guilty of first-degree murder on the theories of premeditation and deliberation and lying in wait. Following a separate capital sentencing proceeding pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000, the jury recommended that defendant be sentenced to death for the murder, and the...

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