State v. White

PARKER, Justice.

Defendant was tried noncapitally on an indictment charging her with the first-degree murder of her stepson, Billy C. White, II (“victim”). The jury returned a verdict finding defendant guilty of first-degree murder, and defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment. For the reasons discussed herein, we conclude that defendant’s trial was free of prejudicial error and uphold her conviction and sentence.

The State’s evidence tended to show that in June 1973, defendant, Sylvia Ipock White, lived in Kinston, North Carolina, with her husband, Billy White, Sr. The Whites lived in an…