Defendant was charged in separate bills of indictment with armed robbery and murder of Donnie P. Christian in New Hanover County on 5 April 1973. The murder indictment is proper in form and drawn in conformity with G.S. 15-144 . The cases were consolidated for trial. The jury convicted defendant of murder in the first degree, and he was sentenced to death. The State offered ample evidence to carry the case to the jury and support a verdict of guilty of…
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