Legal Opinion
Barfield v. Harris
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
Decided May 21, 1982No. 82-245-HCPublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER
DUPREE, Chief Judge.
Petitioner, Margie Bullard Barfield, frequently referred to in these proceedings as Velma Barfield, was convicted in the Superior Court of Bladen County, North Carolina, on 2 December 1978 of first-degree murder by poisoning of one Stewart Taylor. At the sentencing phase of the trial the jury having found three aggravating circumstances attending the murder and no mitigating circumstances, judgment of death by execution was pronounced as mandated by North Carolina law.
On November 6,1979, the Supreme Court of North Carolina affirmed this…
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