State v. Rasor

MARTIN, Justice.

For the reasons stated below, we find defendant’s assignments of error to be meritless and hold that he received a fair trial free from prejudicial error.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the state, the evidence presented at trial tended to show the following: Defendant, aged sixteen, and Roger Giles, aged fifteen, were juvenile offenders committed to the Juvenile Evaluation Center in Swannanoa. On 19 March 1984, defendant and Giles escaped from the center. They spent that night and most of the next day in hiding but resolved that they would make it home without recapture,…