State v. Harshaw

LEWIS, Judge.

Defendant was tried at the 20 July 1998 session of Catawba County Superior Court for first-degree murder. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on 29 July 1998. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Defendant appeals, making four arguments.

The State’s evidence tended to show the following. On the morning of 5 December 1996, while Rod Robinson was in defendant’s apartment, defendant shot Robinson in the right hip, severing an artery. Though shot in the hip, Robinson was still ambulatory, walked to the residence of defendant’s neighbor, Betty Hoover, and told…