State v. Wilson-Angeles

McGEE, Chief Judge.

*887 Rachel Sheri Wilson-Angeles ("Defendant") appeals from judgment entered after a jury found her guilty of attempted first-degree arson and being intoxicated and disruptive in public.

I. Background

Defendant was casually talking to her neighbor, Sharon Houston ("Houston"), outside Houston's apartment in their apartment complex in Mooresville, North Carolina, just before midnight on 20 December 2011. The two had been neighbors for a few years, and were known to occasionally visit and talk with each other in the evenings. That evening, Defendant had been drinking, and "flipped…