State v. Wooten

BRITT, Judge.

The only assignment of error brought forward and argued in defendant’s brief is that the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to arrest the judgment. Defendant contends that the warrant is fatally defective for the reason that it does not show that King’s Department Store, 264 By-Pass, Greenville, N. C., is a natural person or a legal entity capable of owning property; that shoplifting is a “descendent” of the crime of larceny, therefore, the rule applicable to larceny applies to shoplifting.

Defendant relies on State v. Biller, 252 N.C. 783, 114 S.E. 2d 659 (1960), and…