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  "name": "STATE v. COLEY CAIN, EDDIE COBB, and LEROY FAISON",
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      "STATE v. COLEY CAIN, EDDIE COBB, and LEROY FAISON."
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        "text": "Devin, J.\nThe only question raised by the appeal is whether a sentence of not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty years for violation of C. S., 4236, is \u201ccruel and unusual punishment\u201d within the meaning of Art. I, sec. 14, of the Constitution of North Carolina.\nThe decision of this Court in S. v. Swindell, 189 N. C., 151, is determinative of this appeal.\nYiolation of C. S., 4236, is denounced as a felony, and the punishment prescribed is \u201cimprisonment in the State\u2019s Prison ... in the discretion of the court.\u201d\nIn the full and well considered opinion by Mr. Justice Clarlcson in S. v. Swindell, supra, it was held that a sentence of thirty years in that case under a statute (C. S., 4209), prescribing punishment by imprisonment \u201cin the discretion of the court,\u201d did not violate the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, citing S. v. Rippy, 127 N. C., 517.\nSo that the sentence imposed by the able and upright judge, being within the limits of the discretion conferred by the statute, cannot be held by us to be improper. The uncontradicted evidence produced in the hearing before the'court below tended to show preparation and purpose for unusual and violent lawlessness. It was testified that defendant Cain had been for some time a member of the Proctor gang, had been given a year at Williamston, had pleaded guilty to a robbery at this term; that he had been implicated in numerous cases of breaking and entering, robberies and hold-ups; that there were seven or eight warrants out for him for robberies in Wilson, Red Springs, Raeford, and Greensboro, and for shooting a policeman in Greenville. In the stolen automobile in which the defendants were arrested were found two shotguns loaded with buckshot, four pistols, quantity of ammunition, nitroglycerine, soap, gloves, wire, drill punches, and other tools suitable for burglarious breaking. One of the officers who effected the capture testified that while they were searching the defendants, Cain attempted once or twice to get Ms hand on his pistol, and that after they reached the jailer\u2019s office Cain threatened his life if he ever got out. \u201cHe said if he ever got out and put his foot on the ground I belonged to him. He said I wouldn\u2019t always have a guard or an army with me.\u201d The defendants offered no evidence.\nThe judgment of the court below is\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "Devin, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General Seawell and Assistant Attorneys-General Ailcen and Bruton for the State.",
      "Chas. U. Harris for defendant Cain."
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. COLEY CAIN, EDDIE COBB, and LEROY FAISON.\n(Filed 22 January, 1936.)\nCriminal Law K d: Burglary C g \u2014 Sentence of twenty-five to thirty years imprisonment for violation of C. S., 4236, held within court\u2019s discretion.\nA sentence of not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty years in the State\u2019s Prison, upon a plea of guilty of possession of weapons and implements for house breaking, in violation of C. S., 4236, is within the discretion of the court conferred by the statute, and is not objectionable as a cruel and unusual punishment within the meaning of Art. I, sec. 14, of the Constitution of North Carolina.\nAppeal by defendant Cain from Parker, J., at September Term, 1935, of Wake.\nAffirmed.\nThe bill of indictment charged the defendants with violation of C. S., 4236, in the following language: \u201cUnlawfully, willfully, and feloniously were found armed with dangerous and offensive weapons, to wit: One sawed-off shotgun, one automatic shotgun, one revolver, three forty-five calibre automatic pistols, together with ammunition for all of said arms; one black jack, together with one butcher knife, crowbars, chisels, pliers, drill punches, screwdrivers, nitro-glycerine and soap; ropes, blankets, wire, gloves, and matches, with a felonious intent upon the part of each one of said defendants feloniously, unlawfully, and willfully to break and enter a dwelling and other buildings, and unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously to commit a felony, to wit: larceny, therein.\u201d\nThe second count in the bill of indictment charged that said defendants \u201cwere unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously found having in their possession without lawful excuse the following implements, to wit: One sawed-off shotgun; one automatic shotgun; one revolver, three forty-five calibre automatic pistols, together with ammunition for all of said arms; one blackjack, together with one butcher knife, crowbars, chisels, drill punches, pliers, screwdrivers, nitroglycerine and soap, ropes, blankets, gloves, wire, and matches, all of which said implements are implements of house breaking.\u201d\nEach defendant entered plea of guilty, and from judgment that each of them be committed to State\u2019s Prison for the term of not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty years, defendant Coley Cain appealed.\nAttorney-General Seawell and Assistant Attorneys-General Ailcen and Bruton for the State.\nChas. U. Harris for defendant Cain."
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