STATE v. PETERSON

No. 328A97.

516 S.E.2d 131 (1999)

STATE of North Carolina v. Lawrence Eugene PETERSON, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 25, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, by David Roy Blackwell, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Thomas R. Sallenger, Wilson, for defendant-appellant.


PARKER, Justice.

Defendant was indicted on 19 February 1996 for the 5 July 1995 robbery with a dangerous weapon and first-degree murder of sixty-seven-year-old Jewel Scarboro Braswell, the proprietor of a grocery and general store in Richmond County. On 2 December 1996, prior to jury selection, defendant entered a plea of guilty to first-degree murder on the basis of premeditation and deliberation and a plea of guilty to robbery with a dangerous weapon. At the conclusion...

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