State v. Green

*542SMITH, Judge.

Defendant was convicted in February 1996 of first-degree murder felony, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery and was sentenced in March 1996 to life imprisonment plus ten years. The State’s evidence in this case tends to show that the victim, James Jordan, had been sleeping in his Lexus automobile by a highway in Robeson County, North Carolina, in the early morning hours of 23 July 1993. Defendant and his friend, Larry Demery, approached the car, fatally shot Mr. Jordan and dumped his body off a bridge in an area known as Gum Swamp in Marlboro County,…