State v. Abbott

JOHNSON, Judge.

The defendant, Ronald Earl Abbott, was convicted of first-degree rape, first-degree sexual offense and first-degree kidnapping. At defendant’s sentencing hearing on 30 January 1986, the trial court found as an aggravating factor that defendant had a prior conviction punishable by more than sixty days in prison and found as a mitigating factor that defendant had been on good behavior in the Gaston County jail and the North Carolina Department of Correction. The trial court then found that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors, and sentenced defendant to two…