NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 543

SENATE BILL 297

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT FOR ARMED ROBBERY TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-87, as it appears in the 1969 Replacement Volume 1B of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is amended by adding in line 9 the word "years" after the word "five" and by deleting in line 10 the words "thirty years" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "life imprisonment in the State's prison".

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on October 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1975.