STATE v. CORPENING

No. COA97-505.

497 S.E.2d 303 (1998)

STATE of North Carolina v. James Russell CORPENING.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Michael F. Easley by Special Deputy Attorney General Thomas F. Moffitt, for the State.

Michael A. Grace, P.A. by Michael A. Grace, Winston Salem, for defendant-appellant.


WALKER, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. At trial, the State's evidence tended to show that in 1995 defendant was employed as a deputy with the Caldwell County Sheriff's Department (the sheriff's department). Sometime in June of 1995, defendant became aware that his wife (the victim) was seeing a co-worker, Robert Jackson (Jackson).

Defendant's uncle, Lieutenant David Bates (Bates) of...

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