Legal Opinion
State v. Penley
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided August 29, 1986No. 166A85PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MITCHELL, Justice.
The defendant was convicted upon proper indictments for first degree murder, first degree kidnapping and robbery with a firearm. He was sentenced to serve consecutive sentences of life in prison for first degree murder, forty years for first degree kidnapping and forty years for robbery with a firearm.
The defendant appealed the murder conviction and the resulting life sentence to this Court as a matter of right under N.C.G.S. § 7A-27(a). The defendant’s motion to bypass the Court of Appeals on his appeal of the kidnapping and robbery convictions was allowed by this Court on…
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