State v. Barbour

This is the defendant’s sole assignment of error: the Court erred in imposing a sentence in excess of the punishment per-, mitted by G.S. 14-33.

However, at the threshold of our consideration of this appeal we are confronted with the acts of the Court, upon the defendant’s plea of nolo contendere, in finding the defendant guilty of a part of the offenses charged, and not guilty of another part, and in imposing judgment “on the verdict.”

In this jurisdiction pleas of nolo contendere have been accepted for many years. The acceptance by the Court of such a plea, and its entry in the Minutes of the…