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STATE v. SMITH

No. 396A98.

524 S.E.2d 28 (2000)

STATE of North Carolina v. Clinton Cebert SMITH.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 4, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, by Valérie B. Spalding, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Leslie Ann Laufer, Durham, for defendant-appellant.

FREEMAN, Justice.

On 7 April 1998, defendant Clinton Cebert Smith was found guilty of the January 1996 first-degree murder by poisoning of his six-year-old daughter, Britteny, and the attempted murders by poisoning of his ex-girlfriend, Sylvia Cotton (Cotton); his three-year-old son, Jamal; and his four-year-old daughter, Breanca.

The State's evidence tended to show that defendant dated Cotton for a number of years before they broke off their relationship...

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