State v. Suitt

ORR, Judge.

The State’s evidence tended to show that on 2 January 1988, Reverend David McCallum’s yellow and gold 1981 Oldsmobile was stolen from his Durham, North Carolina townhouse around 12:00 a.m. While warming up his car, Reverend McCallum went back inside his apartment. Shortly thereafter, he returned to the driveway and found his car was gone. He immediately called the Durham Police Department.

At about 12:45 a.m., a Granville County Deputy Sheriff noticed a car traveling slowly and followed it. The car pulled off the road into a driveway and turned its lights off. Deputy Hicks went down…