State v. Covington

MEYER, Justice.

The defendant brings forward assignments of error relating to the victims’ in-court identification of him as one of the perpetrators of the offenses against them. He also contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the submission of the cases against him to the jury. We find no error.

The State’s evidence tended to show that on the afternoon of 27 June 1983, Mr. Thomas Puryear and his wife, Wanda, were at their home in Winston-Salem. Shortly after 6:00 p.m., two men, one of whom Mr. Puryear. identified as the defendant, came to the back door seeking directions to the…