Court of Appeals of North Carolina December 2, 1997, COA97-31 (State v. Dammons)

GREENE, Judge.

Claude Dammons (defendant) appeals from: (1) the trial court’s denial of his motion for appropriate relief from a 1973 conviction of voluntary manslaughter (72 CRS 7307); (2) the trial court’s denial of his motion for appropriate relief from a 1994 conviction of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury as a habitual felon (94 CRS 1031 and 94 CRS