no substantive error found
How later courts described this case
- no substantive error found
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Justice Copeland
dissents as to death sentence and votes to remand for imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in State v. Williams, 286 N.C. 422, 437 , 212 S.E. 2d 113, 122 (1975).