State v. Irby

COZORT, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of two counts of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. We find the trial court committed prejudicial error in admitting evidence that the defendant had been involved in a shooting incident three years earlier, and we remand for a new trial.

The State presented the following evidence. On 1 December 1990, Keith Dunevant, aged 33, Kim Dunevant, aged 30, and Coy Dunevant were on a farm owned by Coy Dunevant’s mother and located in southern Caswell County. Keith and Kim had gone to the farm to hunt. Keith had a pump shotgun and a fixed blade…