State v. Hester

WHICHARD, Justice.

In April 1990 defendant was convicted of the first-degree murder of Lynn Stainback, an employee of the Fast Fare on Nicholas and Williams Streets in Henderson, and sentenced to life imprisonment. This Court granted defendant a new trial. State v. Hester, 330 N.C. 547, 411 S.E.2d 610 (1992). Upon retrial, defendant was again convicted, and he now appeals from his conviction and sentence. We find no prejudicial error.

The State’s evidence tended to show that at approximately 7:30 p.m. on 10 December 1989, Officer D.H. Edwards of the Henderson Police Department drove past the…