Supreme Court of North Carolina November 18, 1986, 746A85 (State v. Fisher)

BROWNING, Justice.

The State presented evidence which tended to show that the defendant, John Perry Fisher, and the deceased, Claude Allen Hill, had been “best friends” for a number of years; that on the evening of 3 September 1984 the defendant and Hill drove in the defendant’s wife’s car to a party at the home of Brenda Fisher; and that the defendant and Hill had been drinking beer and liquor,