STATE v. ROBINSON

No. 169.

156 S.E.2d 854 (1967)

271 N.C. 448

STATE of North Carolina v. James ROBINSON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams & Williams, by John B. Williams, Jr., Clinton, for defendant appellant.

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., and Harry W. McGalliard, Deputy Atty. Gen., for the State.


PLESS, Justice.

G.S. § 14-54 provides that the penalty for breaking and entering shall be imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years. Under G.S. § 14-72, the larceny of property taken by breaking and entering a storehouse shall be a felony, and the punishment therefor could be as much as ten (10) years' imprisonment; thus, the Court could have pronounced sentences totaling twenty (20) years. The sole exception presented by the defendant is that the prison...

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