State v. Messick

585 S.E.2d 392 (2003)

STATE of North Carolina,

v.

Ivory Lamont MESSICK, Defendant.

No. COA02-938.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 5, 2003.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Daniel P. O'Brien, for the State.

Rudolph, Maher, Widenhouse & Fialko, by M. Gordon Widenhouse, Jr., Chapel Hill, for the defendant-appellant.

TYSON, Judge.

Ivory Lamont Messick ("defendant") appeals from his jury conviction and sentence for the first-degree murder of Reginald Carr ("Carr"). We find no error.

I. Background

Carr died from gunshot wounds to his head and neck. His body was discovered,…