State v. Roberson

JACKSON, Judge.

On 24 May 2004, Kenneth Roberson ("defendant") was convicted by a jury of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Defendant was sentenced as a Level II offender in the aggravated range, to a minimum of one hundred and twenty-five months and a maximum of one hundred and fifty-nine months imprisonment in the North Carolina Department of Correction. Defendant now appeals his conviction and sentencing.

On 12 May 2002, the victim, Morris Bennett ("Bennett") was on a street corner in front of a convenience store in Durham, North Carolina, when he…