State v. Handsome

COPELAND, Justice.

By his tenth assignment of error, defendant contends that the trial judge erred in giving him separate and consecutive sentences for the armed robbery and kidnapping of George Bryant.

Defendant concedes in his brief that this Court’s decision in State v. Williams, 295 N.C. 655, 249 S.E. 2d 709 (1978), is dispositive of this issue. It is not necessary to prove the completed offense of armed robbery as a part of proving the offense of kidnapping. Under G.S. 14-39 it is necessary to prove that the confinement, restraint, or removal is for the purpose of, among other…