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State v. Bennett

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Nov 1, 1953
78 S.E.2d 313 (N.C. 1953)

Opinion

Filed 4 November, 1953.

APPEAL by the State from Stevens, J., June Term, 1953, CRAVEN.

Attorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorney-General Moody for the State.

Charles L. Abernethy, Jr., for defendant, appellee.


Criminal prosecution under two warrants issued out of the County Recorder's Court of Craven County. Defendant is charged in each warrant with a violation of the motor vehicle law. In the court below the two warrants were consolidated for trial. Thereupon, the court, upon motion of the defendant, quashed the warrants for that the Recorder's Court of Craven County was without jurisdiction of the offenses therein charged. The State excepted and appealed.


This appeal presents the identical question decided by this Court in S. v. Sloan, ante, p. 547, this day filed. On authority of the opinion in that case, the judgment below is

Reversed.


Summaries of

State v. Bennett

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Nov 1, 1953
78 S.E.2d 313 (N.C. 1953)
Case details for

State v. Bennett

Case Details

Full title:STATE v. WOODROW BENNETT

Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina

Date published: Nov 1, 1953

Citations

78 S.E.2d 313 (N.C. 1953)
78 S.E.2d 313