STATE v. EDWARDS

No. 86.

193 S.E.2d 736 (1973)

282 N.C. 578

STATE of North Carolina v. Robert Mitchell EDWARDS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 26, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan and Associate Atty. Edwin M. Speas, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

Frank W. Winfree, Winston-Salem, for defendant appellant.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant's only assignment of error is that "[t]he trial court erred in sentencing defendant for a period of 30 years to life in that the evidence presented by the State and by the defendant did not warrant such cruel and unusual punishment."

The punishment for burglary in the second degree is "imprisonment in the State's prison for life, or for a term of years, in the discretion of the court." G.S. § 14-52. A sentence of imprisonment within...

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