
    STATE of North Carolina v. Gary William CANNON
    No. 276A17
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    Filed March 2, 2018
    Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General, by Thomas J. Campbell, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.
    William D. Spence, Kinston, for defendant-appellant.
   PER CURIAM.

The decision of the Court of Appeals is affirmed. However, we specifically disavow that court's taking of judicial notice of the prevalence of Wal-Mart stores in Gastonia and in the area between Gastonia and Denver, as well as of the "ubiquitous nature of Wal-Mart stores." State v. Cannon , ---N.C. App. ----, ----, 804 S.E.2d 199, 202 (2017).

AFFIRMED.  