Court Opinion

ID: 7500300
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 04:23:09.758009+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:23:15.414983
License: Public Domain

MELVIN, Judge,
concurs in part and dissents in part.
While it is apparent that the prosecuting attorney was overzealous in his presentation of the State’s case to the jury and made several comments that were improper, I feel that the trial judge corrected the matter by instructing the jury to disregard such statements. Cumbie was not entitled to a perfect trial, and he certainly did not receive one. All he is entitled to is a fair trial, and I feel that he received that.
I would therefore affirm the judgment appealed from and remand the cause for the imposition of an appropriate sentence in harmony with North Carolina v. Pearce, referred to in the majority opinion.