State v. Jones

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

Defendant in his brief expressly abandons all of his assignments of error. Under Rule 10 of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure, review is foreclosed except insofar as exceptions are made the bases of assignments of error and those assignments are brought foward. Nevertheless, due to the gravity of the sentence imposed, we elected, pursuant to our inherent authority and Rule 2, to consider defendant’s arguments as presented in his brief. See State v. Adams, 298 N.C. 802, 260 S.E. 2d 431 (1979).

Defendant’s brief is addressed solely to the failure of the judge…