State v. King

PARKER, Justice.

Indicted for the first-degree murder of Johnnie Wayne Medlin (victim) in violation of N.C.G.S. § 14-17, defendant was tried noncap itally and found guilty as charged on the theory of premeditation and deliberation. The trial court sentenced defendant to life imprisonment.

At trial the evidence tended to show that on 11 July 1993, defendant told Frank Parrish, with whom defendant shared a trailer, that he was going down to “West End.” That afternoon as Arnold “Sonny” Turner was walking out of West End Billiards in Hillsborough, he heard defendant call out to him. Defendant asked…