Legal Opinion
Foster v. Barbour
District Court, W.D. North Carolina
Decided October 17, 1978No. C-C-78-101Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
McMILLAN, District Judge.
On August 17, 1976, between 8:30 and 9:00 p. m., Jimmy Small, owner of Jimmy’s Market on Old Statesville Road north of Charlotte, was fatally shot during an attempted robbery of his store. In prosecutions arising out of the attempted robbery and killing, the State contended that four persons — Kenneth Charles Martin, Ernest Williams, Annette Boulware, and petitioner David Bernard Foster — jointly planned and participated in the crime.
On January 24, 1977, petitioner was convicted in Mecklenburg County Superior Court on a charge of…
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