State v. Williams

WHICHARD, Justice.

A jury found defendant guilty of murder in the first degree on the basis of premeditation and deliberation in the deaths of William Fowler and Mitchell McNeill. From our review of the record and of defendant’s assignments of error, we conclude that defendant received a fair trial free from prejudicial error.

The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the State, tended to show that defendant and his friend David Beal went to a pool hall Saturday evening, 19 May 1990. There they met defendant’s cousin Lee Carver and a man named William Fowler, whom Beal agreed to drive…