State v. Taylor

JOHNSON, Judge.

Before discussing defendant’s assignment of error, we, pursuant to Rule 2 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure, will consider the propriety of the defendant’s sentence to “prevent manifest injustice” to the defendant. Defendant did not assign error to the sentence he received, nor did he present the question in his appellate brief.

Possession of stolen goods is a statutory crime created by the Legislature and is of recent vintage. State v. Perry, 305 N.C. 225, 287 S.E. 2d 810 (1982). The possession statutes were passed to provide protection for society in those incidences where…