70 N.C. App. 477 - State v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
June 2012
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Bell · State v. Weaver · State v. Richardson · State v. . Lunsford · 9 N.C. App. 22 - State v. Wall
Most-quoted passages
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“The State’s evidence tended to show that defendant and his father, a codefendant, drove to the house of the victim to discuss personal grievances. An argument ensued, and the victim retreated into his house to get a rifle. Defendant and his father followed the victim into the house. Defendant knocked the rifle out of the victim’s hands and began beating him around the head with a spindle. Defendant’s father then picked up the rifle. Defendant and his father left with the rifle and did not return it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bates
How this case has been treated — in progress
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