State v. Barlowe

MARTIN, Judge.

Defendant was indicted for the first degree murder of her mother, Cynthia Barlowe. She appeals from a judgment sentencing her to life imprisonment without parole entered upon her conviction by a jury of first degree murder.

Briefly summarized only to the extent required for an understanding of the dispositive issue raised by defendant’s appeal, the evidence at trial tended to show that Cynthia Barlowe was murdered in the garage of her home in Nebo, N.C., on 23 September 2000, by defendant’s then-boyfriend, Jeremy Dunlap. Dunlap, who was twenty years old at the time of the murder,…