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App.", "case_ids": [ 8527397 ], "year": 1985, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "658", "parenthetical": "quoting State v. Corn, 303 N.C. 293, 297, 278 S.E.2d 221, 223 (1981)" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc-app/72/0657-01" ] }, { "cite": "348 S.E.2d 798", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1986, "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "318 N.C. 395", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 4737458 ], "year": 1986, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/318/0395-01" ] }, { "cite": "374 S.E.2d 441", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1988, "pin_cites": [ { "parenthetical": "declining to address a motion to dismiss raised in the defendant's brief where the record contained no motion to dismiss filed in accordance with Rule 37" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "92 N.C. App. 359", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C. App.", "case_ids": [ 8526946 ], "year": 1988, "pin_cites": [ { "parenthetical": "declining to address a motion to dismiss raised in the defendant's brief where the record contained no motion to dismiss filed in accordance with Rule 37" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc-app/92/0359-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 893, "char_count": 25100, "ocr_confidence": 0.771, "pagerank": { "raw": 1.1488784417975775e-07, "percentile": 0.5809321315644271 }, "sha256": "8de3abe407097e20e2cea3b3cd1cbb57b6134532936839372dac8d7cbdc3645d", "simhash": "1:2a2f4a260672d9e0", "word_count": 4096 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:54:53.681770+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [ "Judges ORR and DUNCAN concur.", "Judge DUNCAN concurred in this opinion prior to 30 November 1990." ], "parties": [ "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. LONNIE DALE EASTER" ], "opinions": [ { "text": "GREENE, Judge.\nThe defendant was charged with murder, injury to real property and injury to personal property. He entered pleas of guilty to voluntary manslaughter, injury to real property and injury to personal property on 1 August 1989. Judgments were entered after a sentencing hearing on 8 August 1989. The trial court sentenced the defendant to twenty years imprisonment for the offense of voluntary manslaughter. The other two offenses were consolidated for judgment and the defendant was sentenced to two years imprisonment to begin at the expiration of the twenty-year sentence. The defendant appeals.\nAt the sentencing hearing, the State introduced testimony which tends to show that on 17 September 1988, the defendant\u2019s wife told the defendant that she had dated one Mike Taylor approximately three years earlier. That same day the defendant left his home in Mount Airy and traveled to the home of Taylor\u2019s wife in Lambsburg, Virginia. The defendant took with him a .45-caliber pistol.\nIn Virginia, the defendant told Taylor\u2019s wife that he was upset because Taylor had dated his wife. Taylor\u2019s wife told the defendant that she and Taylor were separated, and that Taylor lived on Race Track Road in Mount Airy. As the defendant was leaving Mrs. Taylor\u2019s residence he said, \u201cI\u2019ll hit him one time for you too.\u201d\nThe following afternoon, the defendant and his wife went to Bradley Hull\u2019s house on Race Track Road, the house in which Taylor was supposed to be living. Taylor and Hull had gone to Atlanta the day before to play in a softball tournament. Finding no one at home, the defendant fired four shots from the .45-caliber pistol into Taylor\u2019s truck which was parked in the yard, then fired two shots into the house. The defendant and his wife then went to the home of the defendant\u2019s father-in-law in Mount' Airy. They left their child there and drove back to Bradley Hull\u2019s house on Race Track Road.\nBy the time the defendant and his wife started back to Hull\u2019s house, Hull and Taylor had returned home from Atlanta. Soon after Hull and Taylor arrived they noticed the damage to the truck and the house. Two women also arrived at Hull\u2019s house a few minutes later. While everyone else remained inside the house, Taylor went outside.\nA short while later, the defendant and his wife pulled into the driveway and parked. Taylor and the defendant began arguing in the driveway, with the defendant \u201ccussing and raising hell.\u201d The argument brought Hull and the two women outside. According to the defendant\u2019s wife, the defendant told Taylor that he would be back that night to \u201cget him.\u201d\nThe defendant then backed out of the driveway at a high rate of speed and tried to back over Taylor. After driving a short distance down the highway the defendant stopped his car and got out. He asked Hull, \u201cDo you want some of this?\u201d Hull replied, \u201cYou damn right, buddy, if you done this . . . here.\u201d The defendant then got back in his car and drove off.\nAfter the defendant left, Taylor asked someone to get his gun and bullets from inside the house. Taylor loaded his .38-caliber pistol and drove off in Hull\u2019s truck alone.\nThe defendant drove to a Coca-Cola plant approximately two or three miles away. The defendant pulled in to switch drivers because he did not have a valid driver\u2019s license. As the defendant\u2019s wife was pulling out of the plant, Taylor turned into the driveway and parked with his truck still partly in the highway. Both the defendant and his wife stated to the police that Taylor got out of his truck and started walking toward them saying, \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you.\u201d The defendant then shot Taylor an unspecified number of times.\nThe head of the Mount Airy Rescue Squad was passing by the Coca-Cola plant when the shooting occurred. He pulled in to give aid, but Taylor died almost immediately after he arrived. All of the gunshot wounds were found to be in Taylor\u2019s back.\nThe trial court found as mitigating factors that the defendant had no criminal record, that the defendant voluntarily acknowledged his wrongdoing prior to his arrest, and that the defendant had been a person of good character in his community. The trial court found as the only nonstatutory aggravating factor that the defendant acted with premeditation and deliberation in killing Taylor. Upon finding that the aggravating factor outweighed the mitigating factors, the court imposed the statutory maximum of twenty years imprisonment. The court also ordered that, as a condition of work release or parole, the defendant would have to pay one-third of his income to the clerk of court to be disbursed to the minor children of the deceased.\nThe issues are: (I) whether the trial court erred in finding as an aggravating factor that the defendant acted with premeditation and deliberation because (A) the factor is not supported by the evidence, and (B) because the factor is not reasonably related to the purposes of sentencing in a voluntary manslaughter case; (II) whether the trial court erred in not finding as mitigating factors that the defendant acted under threat, and that he acted under strong provocation or that the relationship between the defendant and the victim was otherwise extenuating; and (III) whether the court\u2019s order that the defendant pay one-third of his income to the clerk of court for disbursement to the minor children of the deceased was beyond the power of the trial court.\nWe first note that the State argues in its brief that this\u00bbappeal should be dismissed because the record does not contain the court reporter\u2019s certification that copies of the completed transcript have been delivered to the parties as required by N.C.R. App. P. 7(b)(2) (1990). Since the State\u2019s contention is raised for the first time in its brief, and not by filing a motion for dismissal, we do not address this argument. N.C.R. App. P. 25, 37 (1990). See also Morris v. Morris, 92 N.C. App. 359, 374 S.E.2d 441 (1988) (declining to address a motion to dismiss raised in the defendant\u2019s brief where the record contained no motion to dismiss filed in accordance with Rule 37).\nI\nThe defendant first argues that the trial court erred by finding as a nonstatutory aggravating factor that the defendant acted with premeditation and deliberation.\nA\nThe defendant contends that there is no evidence to support a finding that he acted with premeditation and deliberation. We disagree.\nThe State bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence the existence of an aggravating factor. State v. Thompson, 318 N.C. 395, 348 S.E.2d 798 (1986). The terms \u201cpremeditation\u201d and \u201cdeliberation\u201d have been explained as follows:\nPremeditation has been defined by this Court as thought beforehand for some length of time, however short. No particular length of time is required; it is sufficient if the process of premeditation occurred at any point prior to the killing. [Citations omitted.] An unlawful killing is committed with deliberation if it is done in a \u201ccool state of blood,\u201d without legal provocation, and in furtherance of a \u201cfixed design to gratify a feeling of revenge, or to accomplish some unlawful purpose.\u201d [Citations omitted.]\nState v. Williamson, 72 N.C. App. 657, 658, 326 S.E.2d 37, 38 (1985) (quoting State v. Corn, 303 N.C. 293, 297, 278 S.E.2d 221, 223 (1981)).\nPremeditation and deliberation must usually be established by circumstantial evidence. State v. Lloyd, 89 N.C. App. 630, 636, 366 S.E.2d 912, 916, disc. rev. denied, 322 N.C. 483, 370 S.E.2d 231 (1988). The circumstances which may tend to establish premeditation ajjd deliberation include:\n(1) want of provocation on the part of the deceased; (2) the conduct and statements of the defendant before and after the killing; (3) threats and declarations of the defendant before and during the course of the occurrence giving rise to the death of the deceased; (4) ill-will or previous difficulty between the parties; (5) the dealing of lethal blows after the deceased has been felled and rendered helpless; and (6) evidence that the killing was done in a brutal manner.\nId. (quoting State v. Gladden, 315 N.C. 398, 430-31, 340 S.E.2d 673, 693, cert. denied, 479 U.S. 871, 93 L.Ed.2d 166 (1986)).\nIn addition to the circumstances above, it has also been held that the nature and number of the victim\u2019s wounds may also support an inference of premeditation and deliberation. See State v. Carter, 318 N.C. 487, 491, 349 S.E.2d 580, 582 (1986).\nThe record indicates that upon learning that his wife had dated Taylor, the defendant drove from Mount Airy to Lambsburg, Virginia in an effort to find Taylor. He carried with him on this trip a .45-caliber pistol. Taylor\u2019s wife told the defendant that Taylor was living in Mount Airy. Before driving back to Mount Airy, the defendant told Taylor\u2019s wife that he would \u201chit him one time for you too.\u201d The next day, still armed with the .45-caliber pistol, the defendant went to Bradley Hull\u2019s home to confront Taylor. When he found no one home, the defendant fired four shots into Taylor\u2019s truck and two shots into the house. After leaving his child with his father-in-law, the defendant finally confronted Taylor. After a heated argument, the defendant told Taylor that he would be back that night to \u201cget him.\u201d As the defendant was leaving, he tried to back over Taylor. In the final confrontation at the Coca-Cola plant, the defendant contends that Taylor first threatened to kill the defendant as he was walking toward the defendant and his wife. However, all the gunshot wounds to Taylor\u2019s body were in his back. While the record is not specific as to the number of gunshot wounds to Taylor\u2019s body, it does indicate that there was more than one wound.\nThis evidence is sufficient to support a finding by the trial court that the State established by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant acted with premeditation and deliberation.\nB\nThe defendant next argues that premeditation and deliberation are improper factors to be considered under the circumstances of this case because (1) these factors are not \u201creasonably related to the purposes of sentencing,\u201d as required by N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1340.4(a), and (2) deliberation and premeditation are inherent to the offense of voluntary manslaughter.\n(1)\nThe relevant statute provides the following:\nThe primary purposes of sentencing a person convicted of a crime are to impose a punishment commensurate with the injury the offense has caused, taking into account factors that may diminish or increase the offender\u2019s culpability; to protect the public by restraining offenders; to assist the offender toward rehabilitation and restoration to the community as a lawful citizen; and to provide a general deterrent to criminal behavior.\nN.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1340.3 (1988).\nOur Supreme Court has held that \u201cwhen a defendant pleads guilty to murder in the second degree, a determination by the preponderance of the evidence in the sentencing phase that he premeditated and deliberated the killing is reasonably related to the purposes of sentencing!,]\u201d and that \u201c[s]uch aggravating factors may be considered in determining an appropriate sentence for the killer.\u201d State v. Melton, 307 N.C. 370, 376, 298 S.E.2d 673, 678 (1983). We are unable to discern, and indeed the defendant does not argue, any distinction which would make premeditation and deliberation reasonably related to the purposes of sentencing where the defendant pleads guilty to murder, but not where he pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Accordingly, we hold that premeditation and deliberation are appropriate nonstatutory aggravating factors where the defendant pleads guilty of voluntary manslaughter.\n(2)\nWe also reject the defendant\u2019s argument that premeditation and deliberation are inherent to the offense of voluntary manslaughter and cannot, therefore, be considered as aggravating factors upon a plea of guilty to voluntary manslaughter. See N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1340.4(a)(1) (evidence necessary to prove an element of the offense may not be used to prove any factor in aggravation). Murder in the first degree is the intentional and unlawful killing of a human being with malice, premeditation, and deliberation. State v. Fleming, 296 N.C. 559, 251 S.E.2d 430 (1979). Murder in the second degree is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice but without premeditation and deliberation. State v. Snyder, 311 N.C. 391, 317 S.E.2d 394 (1984). Voluntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, premeditation, or deliberation. State v. Robbins, 309 N.C. 771, 309 S.E.2d 188 (1983). Thus, premeditation and deliberation are inherent to first-degree murder, but not to second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter.\nAccordingly, the trial court did not err by finding premeditation and deliberation as aggravating factors.\nII\nThe defendant next argues that the trial court erred by failing to find as statutory mitigating factors, under N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1340.4(a)(2), that the offense was committed under threat, and that it was committed under strong provocation or that the relationship between the defendant and the victim was otherwise extenuating.\nWhere the evidence in support of a mitigating factor is uncon-tradicted and manifestly credible, it is error for the trial court to fail to find the mitigating factor. State v. Jones, 309 N.C. 214, 306 S.E.2d 451 (1983). The defendant has the burden of establishing a mitigating factor by a preponderance of the evidence. State v. Hinnant, 65 N.C. App. 130, 308 S.E.2d 732 (1983), cert. denied, 310 N.C. 310, 312 S.E.2d 653 (1984).\nThe defendant contends that there was uncontroverted evidence that the victim blocked the defendant\u2019s vehicle, approached the defendant with his gun drawn, and uttered a threat to kill. The defendant further argues that these acts constituted both a threat and strong provocation as contemplated by the statute.\nThe evidence relied upon by the defendant came from statements made by the defendant and his wife to the investigating officer shortly after the shooting. However, when the defendant\u2019s wife told the officer that the victim had pulled into the Coca-Cola plant and blocked them in, the officer told her that their vehicle was not blocked when he arrived. The defendant\u2019s wife then stated that she had subsequently moved the car. The head of the Mount Airy Rescue Squad was immediately on the scene, however, and he told the investigating officer that the vehicles were still in the same location they were in when he arrived. Furthermore, the defendant and his wife stated that the victim approached them with a gun in his hand and threatened to kill. However, all the gunshot wounds to the victim\u2019s body were in his back. We find from the record that the evidence was conflicting such that the trial court could find that the statements made by the defendant and his wife were contradicted and lacked credibility.\nThe defendant also contends that there was an extenuating relationship between the defendant and the victim because the victim\u2019s behavior tends to shift part of the moral fault for the crime to the victim. See State v. Martin, 68 N.C. App. 272, 314 S.E.2d 805 (1984) (the legislature apparently had in mind circumstances that morally shift the fault for a crime). The basis for this argument is the alleged adulterous relationship between the victim and the defendant\u2019s wife. However, the record does not support this contention. The record states only that the defendant\u2019s wife dated the victim an unspecified number of times. There is a conflict as to whether the dating occurred one year or three years before the shooting, but there is no inference in the record that the date or dates escalated into the \u201cadulterous relationship\u201d argued by the defendant. Furthermore, \u201c[t]here is nothing on the face of the statute to indicate that our legislature meant to provide shorter prison terms for defendants motivated by jealousy or rage.\u201d State v. Puckett, 66 N.C. App. 600, 606, 312 S.E.2d 207, 211 (1984). See also State v. Monroe, 70 N.C. App. 462, 320 S.E.2d 14 (1984).\nTherefore, the trial court did not err by failing to find these mitigating factors.\nIll\nThe defendant\u2019s final argument is that the trial court erred by including in its sentence an order that the defendant pay one-third of his income to the clerk of court for disbursement to the minor children of the victim as a condition of work release. The defendant contends that restitution may only be recommended as a condition of work release, and that it cannot be unconditionally ordered. He further contends that the order was not supported by the evidence. We agree on both bases.\nThe statute pertaining to restitution paid by prisoners with work release is N.C.G.S. \u00a7 148-33.2. Prior to a 1985 amendment, the statute provided that the court shall consider whether \u201crestitution or reparation shall be ordered or recommended ... as a condition of attaining work-release privileges.\u201d N.C.G.S. \u00a7 148-33.2(c) (1978) (emphasis added). In part, the amended statute reads as follows:\nWhen an active sentence is imposed, the court shall consider whether, as a rehabilitative measure, it should recommend to the Secretary of Correction that restitution or reparation be made by the defendant out of any earnings gained by the defendant if he is granted work-release privileges and out of other resources of the defendant. ... If the court determines that restitution or reparation should not be recommended, it shall so indicate on the commitment. If, however, the court determines that restitution or reparation should be recommended, the court shall make its recommendation a part of the order committing the defendant to custody. The recommendation shall be in accordance with the applicable provisions of G.S. 15A-1343(d).\nN.C.G.S. \u00a7 148-33.2(c) (1987) (emphasis added).\nWhile N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1343, which pertains to conditions of probation, speaks in terms of an \u201corder\u201d for restitution or reparation, the amended N.C.G.S. \u00a7 148-33.2(c) makes clear that restitution or reparation may only be recommended as a condition of work release, and if such recommendation is made it is to comply with the applicable provisions of N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1343(d). Thus, the language in that section referring to an \u201corder\u201d for restitution or reparation is made inapplicable by the language of N.C.G.S. \u00a7 148-33.2(c). Accordingly, the trial court is without the authority to \u201corder\u201d restitution as a condition of work release.\nOne part of N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1343 which we do find applicable is the provision that \u201c[t]he amount [of restitution] must be limited to that supported by the record. . . .\u201d N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1343(d) (1988). Restitution is intended to be compensatory, not punitive. State v. Burkhead, 85 N.C. App. 535, 355 S.E.2d 175 (1987). The record before us reveals only that the victim was separated from his wife, and that they had two children who lived with their mother at the time the victim died. This evidence does not support restitution in the amount of one-third of whatever the defendant\u2019s income may be for an undetermined period of time.\nIn summary, with the exception of the order requiring the defendant to pay one-third of his income to the clerk, which is vacated, the trial court is affirmed. We remand for a new hearing and judgment on the question of any recommended conditions of work release.\nAffirmed in part, vacated in part and remanded.\nJudges ORR and DUNCAN concur.\nJudge DUNCAN concurred in this opinion prior to 30 November 1990.", "type": "majority", "author": "GREENE, Judge." } ], "attorneys": [ "Lacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by E. Burke Haywood, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.", "Glover & Petersen, P.A., by James R. Glover and Ann B. Petersen, for defendant-appellant." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. LONNIE DALE EASTER\nNo. 9017SC66\n(Filed 18 December 1990)\n1. Appeal and Error \u00a7 147 (NCI4th)\u2014 court reporter\u2019s certificate omitted \u2014 raised for first time in brief \u2014 issue not considered\nThe State\u2019s contention in a homicide prosecution that the appeal should be dismissed because the record does not contain the court reporter\u2019s certification that copies of the completed transcript were delivered to the parties was not addressed since the State raised the issue for the first time in its brief and not by filing a motion for dismissal. N.C. Rule of Appellate Procedure 7(b)(2) (1990).\nAm Jur 2d, Appeal and Error \u00a7\u00a7 553, 554.\n2. Criminal Law \u00a7 1123 (NCI4th)\u2014 voluntary manslaughter-sentencing \u2014 premeditation and deliberation as aggravating factor \u2014 evidence sufficient\nThere was sufficient evidence to find premeditation and deliberation as an aggravating factor when sentencing defendant for voluntary manslaughter where defendant drove from Mount Airy to Lambsburg, Virginia upon learning that his wife had dated Taylor, the victim; defendant carried with him a .45 caliber pistol; Taylor\u2019s wife told defendant that Taylor was living in Mount Airy; defendant told Taylor\u2019s wife that he would \u201chit him one time for you too\u201d; defendant went the next day to the house where Taylor was living; defendant was armed with the pistol; defendant fired four shots into Taylor\u2019s truck and two shots into the house when he found no one home; defendant finally confronted Taylor and, after a heated argument, told Taylor that he would be back that night to \u201cget him\u201d; defendant tried to back over Taylor as he was leaving; and, while defendant contends that Taylor first threatened to kill him as he was walking towards defendant and his wife in the final confrontation, all of the gunshot wounds to Taylor\u2019s body were in his back and the record indicates that there was more than one wound.\nAm Jur 2d, Homicide \u00a7\u00a7 439, 554.\n3. Criminal Law \u00a7 1123 (NCI4th)\u2014 voluntary manslaughter-sentencing \u2014 premeditation and deliberation \u2014related to purposes of sentencing\nPremeditation and deliberation are appropriate nonstatu-tory aggravating factors when defendant pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter. The North Carolina Supreme Court has held that premeditation and deliberation are reasonably related to the purposes of sentencing when a defendant pleads guilty to second degree murder, and there is no distinction which would make premeditation and deliberation reasonably related to the purposes of sentencing for murder but not for voluntary manslaughter. Moreover, premeditation and deliberation are not inherent to second degree murder or voluntary manslaughter.\nAm Jur 2d, Homicide \u00a7\u00a7 439, 554.\n4. Criminal Law \u00a7\u00a7 1239, 1240 (NCI4th)\u2014 manslaughter \u2014 sentencing \u2014 mitigating factors \u2014 provocation and threat \u2014 not found\nThe trial court did not err when sentencing defendant for voluntary manslaughter by failing to find the statutory mitigating factors that the offense was committed under strong provocation or threat where the evidence was conflicting, so that the trial court could find that statements made by defendant and his wife were contradicted and lacked credibility.\nAm Jur 2d, Homicide \u00a7\u00a7 64, 65, 290, 552.\n5. Criminal Law \u00a7 1242 (NCI4th)\u2014 manslaughter \u2014sentencing\u2014 mitigating factor \u2014 extenuating relationship \u2014not found\nThe trial court did not err by failing to find as a mitigating factor when sentencing defendant for voluntary manslaughter that there was an extenuating relationship between defendant and the victim based on the alleged adulterous relationship between the victim and defendant\u2019s wife. The record states only that defendant\u2019s wife dated the victim an unspecified number of times, there is a conflict as to whether the dating occurred one year or three years before the shooting, and there is no inference in the record that the date or dates escalated into the adulterous relationship argued by the defendant. Furthermore, there is nothing on the face of the statute to indicate that the legislature meant to provide shorter prison terms for defendants motivated by jealousy or rage.\nAm Jur 2d, Homicide \u00a7\u00a7 64, 65, 290, 552.\n6. Criminal Law \u00a7 1430 (NCI4th)\u2014 manslaughter \u2014sentencing\u2014 restitution as condition for work release\nThe trial court when sentencing defendant for voluntary manslaughter was without authority to order that defendant pay one-third of his income to the clerk of court for disbursement to the minor children of the victim as a condition of work release. The language in N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1343(b) referring to an \u201corder\u201d for restitution or reparation is made inapplicable by the language of N.C.G.S. \u00a7 148-33.2(c), which makes clear that the restitution or reparation may be only recommended. Moreover, an applicable provision of N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1343 requires that the amount of restitution must be limited to that supported by the record, and the evidence in this case does not support restitution in the amount of one-third of whatever defendant\u2019s income may be for an undetermined period of time.\nAm Jur 2d, Criminal Law \u00a7\u00a7 572, 574.\nPropriety of condition of probation which requires defendant convicted of crime of violence to make reparation to injured victim. 79 ALR3d 976.\nAPPEAL by defendant from judgment entered 8 August 1989 by Judge James C. Davis in SURRY County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 26 September 1990.\nLacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by E. Burke Haywood, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.\nGlover & Petersen, P.A., by James R. Glover and Ann B. Petersen, for defendant-appellant." }, "file_name": "0036-01", "first_page_order": 64, "last_page_order": 75 }