Court Opinion

ID: 3647671
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:03:21.759852+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:25:48.894663
License: Public Domain

By chapter 573, Laws 1907, the recorder's court was created at Winston for the trial of petty misdemeanors, but with right of appeal to the Superior Court. By section 4 of said act, larceny of goods less than $10 was made a petty misdemeanor. The defendant, convicted in said court on a charge of petty misdemeanor, in stealing shipstuff of the value of $3, appealed to the Superior Court, and being put on trial de novo, objected because no indictment against him had been returned by a grand jury. The judge overruled the exception; the defendant excepted and, there being a verdict of guilty, appealed.
There is no error. The same point has been fully discussed and settled in S. v. Lytle, 138 N.C. 738. In like manner, when a case is tried in the Superior Court on appeal from a justice of the peace, no indictment is required. S. v. Quick, 72 N.C. 243; S. v. Thornton, 136 N.C. 616.
No error.
Cited: S. v. Shine, 149 N.C. 482; S. v. Collins, 151 N.C. 649; S. v.Brown, 159 N.C. 469; S. v. Dunlap, ib., 493; S. v. Hyman, 164 N.C. 415;S. v. Tate, 169 N.C. 374.
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