State v. Faison
This text of 157 S.E.2d 664 (State v. Faison) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of North Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The hope of escape has little merit. In these days of fast communication and transportation, less than one out of ten attempted escapes are successful — and the penalty for failure is severe, as this case demonstrates. The defendant has lost eighteen months out of his life for a few hours of frightened and terrified “freedom.”
The defendant in his brief says: “The only exception brought forward is the defendant’s assertion that it was error for the Court to have imposed a sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment upon him for the crime of escape, third offense.”
Under the charge a sentence of three years could have been imposed. G.S. 148-45(a). He got just half that. A sentence within the statutory limits will not be disturbed. State v. Robinson, 271 N.C. 448, 156 S.E. 2d 854.
No error.
Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI
Related
Cite This Page — Counsel Stack
157 S.E.2d 664, 272 N.C. 146, 1967 N.C. LEXIS 992, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/state-v-faison-nc-1967.