STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA            

v .                         Cumberland County
                            No. 02 CRS 53465
WALKER JOHNSON, III

    Appeal by Defendant from judgment entered 4 September 2003 by Judge James Floyd Ammons, Jr. in Superior Court, Cumberland County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 21 September 2004.

    Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Marc Bernstein, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

    Samuel L. Bridges, for defendant-appellant.

    WYNN, Judge.

    Defendant Walker Johnson, III appeals from his conviction of felony possession of cocaine. Defendant asserts that the trial court erred in allowing possession of cocaine to go to the jury as a felony, contending that the offense is instead a misdemeanor. Defendant bases this assertion on State v. Jones, 161 N.C. App. 60, 588 S.E.2d 5 (2003), and State v. Sneed, 161 N.C. App. 331, 588 S.E.2d 74 (2003). Consequently, Defendant contends that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to sentence Defendant as an habitual felon pursuant to a conviction of felonious possession of cocaine.
We disagree.
    Both Jones and Sneed were unambiguously overruled by our Supreme Court, which held that “possession of cocaine is a felonyand therefore can serve as an underlying felony to an habitual felon indictment.” State v. Jones, 358 N.C. 473, 476, 598 S.E.2d 125, 127 (2004); State v. Sneed, 358 N.C. 538, 599 S.E.2d 365 (2004). Defendant has failed to present supporting arguments for his other assignments of error; they are therefore deemed abandoned. N.C. R. App. P. 28(a); State v. Prevatte, 356 N.C. 178, 214, 570 S.E.2d 440, 460 (2002).
    For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the trial court's judgment and dismiss the instant appeal.
    Affirmed.
    Judges HUNTER and THORNBURG concur.
    Report per Rule 30(e).

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