State v. Sams

FRYE, Justice.

Defendant brings six assignments of error before this Court. The first concerns the Speedy Trial Act; the second, the sufficiency of the evidence; the third and fourth, the trial judge’s acts in sustaining two of the prosecutor’s objections; and the last two, jury instructions. After considering each of these assignments, we find no reversible error.

The facts underlying this case are bizarre. Around 10:00 p.m. on 28 February 1979, the Randolph County Sheriffs Department was called to the home of the victim, defendant’s brother-in-law. The deputies found him lying on the floor of…