
    STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. ROGER EARL COLEY
    No. 544A08
    (Filed 9 October 2009)
    Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 193 N.C. App.-, 668 S.E.2d 46 (2008), finding no prejudicial error in a judgment imposing a sentence of life imprisonment without parole entered 2 August 2006 by Judge W. Russell Duke, Jr. in Superior Court, Edgecombe County, following a jury verdict finding defendant guilty of firstTdegree murder. Heard in the Supreme Court 8 September 2009.
    
      Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Joan M. Cunningham, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
    
    
      M. Gordon Widenhouse Jr. for defendant-appellant.
    
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.  