IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 372A16 Filed 29 September 2017 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WILLIAM CLIFTON CRABTREE, SR.

Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, ___ N.C. App. ___, 790 S.E.2d 709 (2016), finding no error in part and no prejudicial error in part in judgments entered on 19 March 2015 by Judge Beecher R. Gray in Superior Court, Person County. Heard in the Supreme Court on August 2017.

Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General, by Natalie Whiteman Bacon and Tracy Nayer, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State.

Mark Montgomery for defendant-appellant.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.