State v. Cockerham

HUDSON, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of discharging a firearm into occupied property, and the court sentenced defendant to a minimum term of twenty-seven months and a maximum term of forty two months imprisonment. Defendant appeals.

The State presented evidence indicating that at approximately 7:00 p.m. on 20 May 2000, Raquel Burnette, age 11, and Dominique Burnette, age 10, were sitting on the bed in their mother’s bedroom in Apartment D-l, 2733 Wake Forest Highway in Durham when they heard a gunshot. The girls ran from the room to a neighbor’s house and the neighbor called the police.

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