Legal Opinion
State v. Harris
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided February 18, 1986No. 176A85PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Justice.
The evidence tended to show that Rodney Moore and Jimmy Harris, the defendant, broke into a house on Western Avenue in Rocky Mount in June 1984 and stole a .45-caliber automatic handgun. Between midnight and 1:00 a.m. on 8 July 1984, while Moore and Harris were out riding around together in defendant’s father’s car, they passed by Rocky Mount Motor Court. Seeing the door open to the end room, the two men planned to rob the people inside, thinking the open door would make the robbery easy. They parked in a nearby trailer park and walked to the motel.
The occupants of room 40,…
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