NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 652

SENATE BILL 541

AN ACT MAKING FLIGHT AFTER COMMITTING MURDER AN AGGRAVATING FACTOR FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPOSING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 15A-2000(e)(5) as the same appears in the 1979 Cumulative Supplement to the 1978 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended in the third line by inserting after the word "any" and before the word "robbery," the word "homicide,".

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification and applies to capital felonies committed on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1981.