State v. Miller

EXUM, Justice.

Defendants assign as error numerous evidentiary rulings and the failure of the trial judge adequately to summarize the evidence in his charge to the jury. After careful examination of each of defendants’ contentions we conclude that both received a fair trial free from prejudicial error.

The state’s evidence tends to show the following: At approximately 2:00 a.m. on 27 September 1979 a customer of the Stop-N-Go store in Washington, North Carolina, discovered the body of the deceased, James Perry Ebron, the store operator, lying face down on the floor in the store near the cash…