North Carolina man sentenced to life in prison for murder

Life in prison for convicted murderer in Mercer County

princeton — A jury that convicted a Mercer County man Thursday afternoon for first-degree murder determined Friday morning that he should spend the rest of his life in prison.

North Carolina man sentenced to life in prison for murder

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — A judge sentenced a man to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murder. The sentence follows a jury taking less than an hour Thursday to find Jim Robert Goins, 46, guilty of first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon. Goins killed Kenneth Covell in East Arcadia on August 18th, 2020. Covell’s body was found partially dismembered in the Cape Fear River four days later, about six miles from wh…