PER CURIAM.
Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A–30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, ––– N.C.App. ––––, 730 S.E.2d 816 (2012), finding no error in defendant's trial resulting in a judgment imposing a sentence of life imprisonment without parole entered on 16 March 2011 by Judge Ronald E. Spivey in Superior Court, Wilkes County, upon a jury verdict finding defendant guilty of first-degree murder. Heard in the Supreme Court on 12 March 2013. Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Derrick C. Mertz, Assistant Attorney General, for the State. Rudolf Widenhouse & Fialko, Chapel Hill, by M. Gordon Widenhouse Jr., for defendant-appellant.
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED.