State v. Larry

ORR, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty of robbery with a firearm and of the first-degree murder of Robert Buitrago on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation and under the felony murder rule. The evidence at trial tended to show that on 15 January 1994, at approximately 9:30 p.m., defendant robbed a Food Lion grocery store in Winston-Salem. Cynthia Pennell, a Food Lion employee who had access to the safe, saw defendant standing in the front part of the store and asked if she could help him. He said that she could open the safe for him and that if she did not, she was a dead…