Pinyatello v. State

MALLARD, Chief Judge.

Petitioner was charged in a bill of indictment, proper in form, returned at a January 1967 Session of Superior Court held in Wake County, with the violation of the safecracking and safe robbery statute on 21 November 1966. This statute reads as follows:

“Any person who shall by the use of explosives, drills, or other tools unlawfully force open or attempt to force open or ‘pick’ the combination of a safe or vault used for storing money or other valuables, shall, upon conviction thereof, receive a sentence, in the discretion of the trial judge, of from ten years to life…