State v. Leach

MITCHELL, Chief Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally and convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, discharging a firearm into occupied property and assault with a deadly weapon. After a capital sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended a life sentence for the murder, and the trial court entered sentence accordingly.

The State’s evidence tended to show that on Sunday, 7 June 1992, Ronald Roseboro, David Rose and defendant James Frederick Leach met at the Luxbury Hotel near Interstate 85 in Charlotte. The three men left the hotel and drove to LeNita Weldon’s apartment in Roseboro’s car.…