State v. Carver

STEPHENS, Judge.

Following his indictment on one count of first-degree murder, Defendant Mark Bradley Carver pled not guilty to the charge and was tried by a jury in Gaston County Superior Court, the Honorable Timothy S. Kincaid presiding. The evidence presented by the State tended to show that the victim was found dead beside her car on the shore of the Catawba River, and that Carver and his cousin were fishing close by at the time the victim’s body was discovered and near the time the victim was murdered. The victim had been strangled to death with a ribbon from a gift bag in her car, the…