State v. Locklear

EXUM, Chief Justice.

In this appeal defendant’s assignments of error pertain to the sufficiency of the state’s evidence and to rulings by the trial court on various evidentiary matters. We find no reversible error in defendant’s trial.

At trial the state’s evidence tended to show that Michelle Oxendine, the prosecuting witness, was staying overnight at the home of her brother and sister-in-law in Robeson County. Ms. Oxendine had dated the defendant for approximately nine months, but had ended the relationship two weeks before the morning of 13 August 1986. On that morning at approximately 7:30…