State v. Maske

EDMUNDS, Justice.

The victim in this murder case, Geneva Yarbrough (Yarbrough), lived in an apartment on Avera Avenue in Winston-Salem. She was a full-time employee of Bank of America and also worked part-time as a waitress at Darryl’s Restaurant. After taking a day off from her bank job on Tuesday, 30 January 2001, for a doctor’s appointment, she never returned to work.

At about 10:00 p.m. on the evening of Wednesday, 31 January 2001, Jamelle Witherspoon (Jamelle), a sixteen-year-old boy whose family lived above Yarbrough’s apartment, knocked on Yarbrough’s *43door to warn her that the headlights…