State v. Robertson

LEWIS, Judge.

Defendant was tried at the 19 January 1999 session of Mecklenburg County Superior Court on one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, in violation *507of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-32(a), and one count of common law robbery. At trial, the State’s evidence tended to show that defendant and the victim, Ms. Dover, had in the past been involved in a relationship. On 17 November 1997, while Ms. Dover was riding the bus home from work, defendant came up to her and stated that he had heard she was engaged, to which she responded, “Yes.” Defendant then…