State v. Oliver

PARKER, Justice.

Defendant was charged in indictments, proper in form, with first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and attempted armed robbery. The case was tried capitally on the theory of premeditated and deliberated murder and under the felony-murder rule. Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder under the felony-murder rule only and was found guilty as charged on the remaining offenses. Following a sentencing proceeding pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000, the jury recommended life imprisonment. Upon this…