State v. Atkinson

BOBBITT, Chief Justice.

At the trial of defendant, Dee D. Atkinson, at the July-August 1968 Criminal Session of the Superior Court of Wayne County, North Carolina, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and thereupon the court pronounced judgment which imposed a death sentence. Upon defendant’s appeal, this Court found “No error” in the trial and judgment. State v. Atkinson, 275 N.C. 288, 167 S.E. 2d 241 (1969). On June 28, 1971, upon its consideration of defendant’s petition for writ of certiorari, the Supreme Court of the United States entered the following…