IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 304A17 Filed 11 May 2018 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. ASAIAH BEN YISRAEL

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. ___, 804 S.E.2d 742 (2017), finding no error after appeal from a judgment entered on 13 April 2016 by Judge Paul C. Ridgeway in Superior Court, Wake County. Heard in the Supreme Court on 16 April 2018.

Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General, by Mary L. Lucasse, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Craig M. Cooley for defendant-appellant.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.