Legal Opinion
State v. Jones
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided August 19, 2005No. 389PA04PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Justice.
This appeal presents the issue of whether N.C.G.S. § 15-144 •authorizes the use of a short-form indictment to charge attempted first-degree murder.
Evidence presented at trial tended to show that on 30 June 2000, defendant Christopher Nathaniel Jones had an argument with his coworker, Romario Robinson, at their Pineville, North Carolina workplace, Buffalo Tire. After an angry exchange of words, Robinson grabbed a baseball bat, raised it into the air, and directed it towards defendant. Jonathan Lucas, a manager at Buffalo Tire, overheard the argument and arrived just in time to…
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