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STATE v. COPLEN

No. COA99-523.

530 S.E.2d 313 (2000)

STATE of North Carolina v. Patsy E. COPLEN, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 16, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Michael F. Easley, by Assistant Attorney General Tina A. Krasner, for the State.

Mary March Exum, Chapel Hill, for defendant-appellant.

TIMMONS-GOODSON, Judge.

Patsy E. Coplen ("defendant") and Richard Martin ("the victim") lived together in a mobile home in the Oscar Long Subdivision of Leland, North Carolina. On 6 May 1996 at approximately 10:30 or 11:00 p.m., Betty Harper ("Harper"), a neighbor, heard defendant call for help. Defendant informed Harper that she had gone to the store to buy beer for her husband and that when she returned home, she found his body lying in a pool of blood.

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