Case ID: nc_317/html/0143-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. RALPH WOODS, JR.
    No. 751PA85
    (Filed 3 June 1986)
    On grant of a petition for discretionary review of a decision of the Court of Appeals, 77 N.C. App. 622, 336 S.E. 2d 1 (1985), finding no error in defendant’s trial, conviction, and sentence for armed robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. Heard in the Supreme Court 14 May 1986.
    
      Lacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by William F. O’Connell, Senior Deputy Attorney General, for the State.
    
    
      Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, by Leland 0. Towns, Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellant.
    
   PER CURIAM.

The sole issue before this Court is whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the sentence imposed by the trial court. Defendant was initially convicted on the present charges on 21 June 1982. He appealed this conviction and won a reversal. See State v. Woods, 311 N.C. 80, 316 S.E. 2d 299 (1984). While his appeal was pending, he entered a plea bargain in Davidson County and pled no contest to one count of common law robbery in return for a ten-year sentence that was to run concurrently with the sentence imposed upon his initial conviction on the instant charges. Defendant was re-tried on the instant charges at the 26 November 1984 Criminal Session of Superior Court, Montgomery County. Upon verdicts of guilty of both charges, the trial judge sentenced defendant to six months for the concealed weapon offense and fourteen years for the armed robbery conviction. The six-month sentence was to run concurrently with the Davidson County sentence, but the trial judge concluded after hearing arguments that he was required by N.C.G.S. § 14-87(d) to make the armed robbery sentence run consecutively to the Davidson County sentence. The Court of Appeals agreed with the trial judge’s conclusion.

This Court affirms the decision of the Court of Appeals on this issue without prejudice to the defendant’s ability to file a motion for appropriate relief in the Davidson County case. The Clerk of Court of Montgomery County shall calculate the amount of credit to which defendant is entitled.

Affirmed.