STATE v. SWEAT

No. 472A11.

727 S.E.2d 691 (2012)

STATE of North Carolina v. Timothy Alfred SWEAT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 14, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper , Attorney General, by Margaret A. Force , Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellee/appellant.

Russell J. Hollers III , Durham, for defendant-appellant/appellee.


PARKER, Chief Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the Court of Appeals erred by holding that the State's evidence satisfied the corpus delicti rule and by granting defendant a new trial for two convictions of sexual offense with a child. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals in part and reverse in part.

Defendant, then forty-four years old, was arrested on 2 April 2009, following an investigation and his...

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