STATE v. DICKENS

No. 189A96.

484 S.E.2d 553 (1997)

346 N.C. 26

STATE of North Carolina v. Jeffrey P. DICKENS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 9, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by David F. Hoke, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Staton, Perkinson, Doster, Post, Silverman & Adcock by Norman C. Post, Jr., and Jonathan Silverman, Sanford, for defendant-appellant.


WHICHARD, Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally for the first-degree murder of eighty-nine-year-old Roseline Murphy. He was also tried for the first-degree burglary of Murphy. The jury found him guilty of first-degree murder on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation and under the felony murder rule and recommended a sentence of life imprisonment. The trial court accordingly sentenced defendant to life imprisonment on the first-degree murder conviction...

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