State v. Chamberlain

EXUM, Justice.

In this appeal defendant’s assignments of error relate to the trial court’s failure to grant his motion to suppress his pretrial confession, the denial of his motions to dismiss the charge, and the court’s instructions to the jury. We find no reversible error in the trial; therefore, we affirm the judgment.

The state’s evidence tends to show the following:

On 24 February 1981, the victim, Wilbert Grady, was eighty-three years old and lived in a house with his son, Isom Grady, near LaGrange, North Carolina. When Isom went to work around 7:30 that morning, he left his father sitting…