In Re: Joseph Lee Moore

MOORE, Justice.

The only question before us on this appeal is the constitutionality of G.S. 35-36 through G.S. 35-50, inclusive.

The respondent attacks these statutes on the grounds that they are violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Law of the Land Clause of Article I, Section 19, of the Nprth Carolina Constitution, both from procedural and substantive standpoints, that they deny the respondent equal protection of the law, are unconstitutionally vague and arbitrary, and provide for cruel and unusual punishment. The term “law…