State v. Greene

FREEMAN, Justice.

Defendant, Gary Dean Greene, was indicted on 8 December 1986 for robbery with a dangerous weapon and the first-degree murder of his father, Pressly (“Press”) Greene. He was tried capitally before a jury in August 1987 in Superior Court, Caldwell County. The jury found defendant guilty of robbery with a dangerous weapon and of first-degree murder on the basis of premeditation and deliberation and under the felony murder rule. The trial court subsequently sentenced defendant to death for the murder conviction and to forty years’ imprisonment for the robbery conviction. On…