State v. Thomas

676 S.E.2d 56 (2009)

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Travis Bernard THOMAS, Defendant.

No. COA08-515.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 5, 2009.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Special Deputy Attorney General Joyce S. Rutledge, for the State.

Robert W. Ewing, Clemmons, for defendant-appellant.

GEER, Judge.

Defendant Travis Bernard Thomas appeals from the judgments and commitments imposing sentences for second degree kidnapping and first degree rape. Defendant primarily argues on appeal that the trial court should have instructed the jury on the offense of assault on a female as a lesser alternative…