the State previously had not introduced this testimony at the guilt phase of the trial.  Finding none of the claims meritorious, we affirm.

I.

2
David Brown worked as a chef in a hotel in Pinehurst, North Carolina.  On the evening of Sunday, August 24, 1980, Brown was the disc jockey for a party at which he consumed a substantial amount of alcohol and took at least five amphetamines.  Brown had a distinctive silver ring which he wore to this party, although he avers that he took it off while playing records about one-half hour after arriving at the party.


3
At approximately 11:30 p.m. on Sunday evening, Brown and a group of people left the party and went to a nightclub.  Police officers later observed Brown walking ondistinctive silver ring.  Brown told his co-worker that he was in pain and that he had cut his hand.  A nurse at a nearby hospital testified that she saw Brown at the hospital on Monday night at 11:00 p.m., at which time he was recovering from surgery to repair cut tendons in his left hand.


4
The victims in this case were Shelly Diane Chalflinch, twenty-six, and her nine-year-old daughter, Christina.  They lived in the same apartment complex as Brown, the Married Quarters Apartments in Pinehurst.  At trial, the evidence showed that Diane Chalflinch was last seen alive at approximately 1:00 a.m., early Monday morning, walking toward the apartment complex's laundry room.  Brown developed testimony at an evidentiary hearing below that suggested Chalflinch may have