State v. Goodman

HUNTER, Judge.

William Jasper Goodman, Jr. (“defendant”) appeals his conviction and sentence for the second degree murder of Lewis Watford. We hold defendant’s trial was free from prejudicial error; however, we remand for resentencing.

The evidence presented at trial tended to establish that on 11 February 1999 at approximately 11:30 a.m., seventy-three year-old Lewis Watford was driving a Mercury Grand Marquis on U.S. 321 in Gastonia. Watford’s vehicle was stopped at a red light in the left *60northbound lane of U.S. 321 at the intersection of Hudson Boulevard. When the light turned green,…