Legal Opinion

State v. Hester

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided July 20, 1993No. 9225SC897PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

JOHN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to a thirty year active term of imprisonment. He contends the trial court erred in (1) denying his motion to suppress certain prior convictions, which were then used to enhance his sentence beyond the presumptive; (2) allowing the jury to take written copies of the court’s charge into the jury deliberation room; and (3) denying his motions to dismiss the charge of second degree murder for insufficiency of the evidence made at the close of State’s evidence and at the close of all the evidence. We are not persuaded by…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Carnley v. CochranSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  3. State v. BrownSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1984
  4. State v. McKinneySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1975
  5. State v. WeeksSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1988

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. State v. HaireCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2010

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