State v. Melvin

ORDER

THIS case was heard on 12 May 1987 on defendant’s appeal from a judgment of life imprisonment entered at the 7 April 1986 Criminal Session of Superior Court, CUMBERLAND County, Johnson, J., presiding.

*509Defendant contends on appeal that two of the principal witnesses against him, James Rhone and Anthony Rhone, were so intimidated by the prosecutor into giving their testimony that defendant’s constitutional rights to present a defense and to due process have been violated to his prejudice.

At defendant’s trial the witnesses James and Anthony Rhone both testified that they, with the defendant,…