State v. Cross

LAKE, Justice.

The defendant was tried and convicted of first-degree kidnapping, common-law robbery, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and nine counts of obtaining property by false pretense. Judge Hight sentenced defendant to a total of sixty years’ imprisonment.

At trial, the State’s evidence tended to show that Nancy White, the victim, arrived at the Crabtree Sheraton Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday, 22 October 1993. White parked her automobile in the hotel’s left side parking lot. After retrieving her luggage from the *715trunk, White locked her car and checked…