State v. Hopper

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 prison sentences, he could hardly hope for further slap-on-the-wrist treatment by the Court. The sentences pronounced herein, while severe, amount to only about a third of the time of imprisonment…