State v. Leggett

EDMUNDS, Judge.

This appeal arises from a double murder. On the evening of 20 January 1994, Margaret Strickland borrowed her mother’s car to visit Bobby Stroud. Two days later, the bodies of Strickland and Stroud were found near Dudley, North Carolina. Autopsies disclosed that Strickland had suffered blunt force injury to her left cheek and forehead as well as three gunshot wounds, one to the chest and two to her head and face. Stroud also suffered from three gunshot wounds, one to the back and two to his head and neck. The car owned by Strickland’s mother was found behind an abandoned house.…