Legal Opinion
State v. Hill
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided June 25, 1992No. 233A91PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MITCHELL, Justice.
The State’s evidence tended to show the following. In October 1989 the defendant Zane Brown Hill abandoned his wife Bonnie Hill. Early on the morning of 29 November 1989, the defendant broke a bedroom window and entered his estranged wife’s home. The defendant placed a pistol to his wife’s throat and said he had come to kill her. He then ordered his wife to bed. The defendant soon passed out, and Mrs. Hill left the house.
On 10 January 1990 Mrs. Hill left for work at 6:20 a.m. The defendant telephoned her at work several times that day to discuss the possibility of their…
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