State v. Jackson

LAKE, Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally for the first-degree murder of Kenneth Marese Murphy. The jury returned with a guilty verdict and recommended a sentence of life imprisonment. We find no prejudicial error and accordingly leave defendant’s first-degree murder conviction undisturbed.

At trial, the State presented evidence tending to show that in the early morning hours of 27 April 1991, Kenneth Marese Murphy was fatally shot in the chest outside “Faces” nightclub in Wilmington. Earlier that night, Murphy and his friend, Craig Bonds, went to the campus of the University of North…