State v. Dawson

MEYER, Justice.

In brief summary, the State’s evidence tended to show that at around 10:00 p.m., on 18 August 1978, Donald W. Cox and four friends were riding in Cox’s jeep in Eden, North Carolina. As Cox proceeded up Maplewood Drive, an off-white or yellow colored station wagon approached from the opposite direction and turned “sideways” in the road “like he was blocking off the road.” As Cox started to pull around the station wagon, the person on the passenger side of the wagon jumped out, ran to the back of the station wagon and “hollered ‘Stop or I will shoot.’” The person then fired four…