State v. Mitchell

MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant was tried upon proper indictments and convicted of murder in the first degree, armed robbery, aiding and abetting in armed robbery, and felonious conspiracy. In the murder case the jury found the defendant guilty on both the theory of felony murder and the theory of premeditation and deliberation. At the sentencing hearing the jury found that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances and that the aggravating circumstances were “sufficiently substantial to call for the imposition of the death penalty.” N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000(c)(2)…