Legal Opinion
State v. Cummings
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided March 1, 1990No. 365A87PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Justice.
Defendant contends he is entitled to a new trial or, in the alternative, a new sentencing hearing. We find no error in the guilt phase but remand for a new sentencing hearing.
On Tuesday, 14 January 1986, the bodies of two white females were found by members of a crew baling pine straw. They were approximately one hundred feet apart near a pond in a wooded area of land owned by the State of North Carolina about 1.5 miles from a house owned by defendant in Hoke County. The bodies were transported to the state medical examiner’s facility in Chapel Hill where Drs. Page Hudson and…
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