State v. HENGSTENBERG

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

v.

DEWITT WALLACE HENGSTENBERG.

No. COA06-1661

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed October 2, 2007

This case not for publication

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Special Deputy Attorney General Melissa L. Trippe, for the State.

Belser & Parke, P.A., by David G. Belser, for defendant-appellant.

WYNN, Judge.

A prior act or crime is sufficiently similar if there are some unusual facts present indicating that the same person committed both the earlier offense and the present one.[1] Here, Defendant Dewitt Wallace Hengstenberg argues that the prior conviction and prior bad act…