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STATE v. HOPPER

No. 165.

156 S.E.2d 857 (1967)

271 N.C. 464

STATE of North Carolina v. James Edwin HOPPER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 27, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Dixon Lackey, Jr., Shelby, for defendant appellant.

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

PER CURIAM:

The defendant's only assignment of error is that the prison sentences imposed constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Upon his pleas of guilty, he could have been given a total of forty years' imprisonment for the forgery and uttering of the two checks. G.S. § 14-119 and G.S. § 14-120.

With a record of two felony convictions in which, so far as the present record shows, he received no active...

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