State v. Taylor

PARKER, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the finding in aggravation that “[T]he murder was a course of conduct in which defendant committed an act of violence against another person.”

General Statute 15A-1340.4(a)(l)(o) prohibits, as an aggravating factor, convictions for offenses “joinable, under G.S. Chapter 15A, with the crime or crimes for which the defendant is currently being sentenced.” This prohibits the trial judge from considering that defendant committed the joinable offense as an aggravating factor. State v. Lattimore, 310 N.C. 295, 311 S.E. 2d 876 (1984); State v. Puckett, 66 N.C.…