State v. Farrell

Both the judgment and the notice of appeal were entered in the Superior Court on 17 May 1968. At that time Judge Peel entered an order allowing defendant 60 days to serve case on appeal and allowed the State 30 days thereafter to serve countercase or exceptions. If the full time allowed by this order had been used, the record on appeal could not reasonably have been docketed in this Court within the 90 days required by our rules.

We reiterate here what we explained in Smith v. Starnes, 1 N.C. App. 192, 160 S.E. 2d 547:

“The judgment appealed from in this case was signed on the 4th day of…