State v. Lawson

JACKSON, Judge.

On 5 November 2003, George Wesley Lawson (“defendant”) was tried on an indictment charging him with first degree burglary and the assault of Kevin Taborn (“Taborn”) with a deadly weapon inflicting serious bodily injury. At the close of the State’s evidence, the court granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the first degree burglary charge. On 7 November 2003, a jury convicted defendant of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. The court sentenced defendant as a level three offender to forty two (42) to sixty (60) months in the North Carolina Department of…