State v. Ballew

440 S.E.2d 565 (1994)

113 N.C. App. 674

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Devon El BALLEW.

No. 9327SC518.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 1, 1994.

Atty. Gen., Michael F. Easley by Asst. Atty. Gen., K.D. Sturgis, Raleigh, for the State.

Carpenter & James by Reid C. James, Gastonia, for defendant-appellant.

LEWIS, Judge.

On 3 February 1993, defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of two counts of first-degree rape and one count of sexual activity by a substitute parent. He received a sentence of life imprisonment for each of the rape convictions and a sentence of fifteen years imprisonment for the…