STATE v. PENLEY

No. 166A85.

347 S.E.2d 783 (1986)

STATE of North Carolina v. Frank Morris PENLEY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Thomas J. Ziko and Laura E. Crumpler, Asst. Attys. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Randy D. Duncan, Hickory, for defendant-appellant.


MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant was convicted upon proper indictments for first degree murder, first degree kidnapping and robbery with a firearm. He was sentenced to serve consecutive sentences of life in prison for first degree murder, forty years for first degree kidnapping and forty years for robbery with a firearm.

The defendant appealed the murder conviction and the resulting life sentence to this Court as a matter of right under N.C. G.S. § 7A...

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