Legal Opinion

State v. . Bishop

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided December 19, 1947PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSeawell, J.

The constitutional questions found in the record are not brought forward in the appellant’s brief or argued orally. The same questions were raised in the companion case, S. v. Whitaker, et al., ante, 352, and are there discussed.

The defendant relies upon the theory that the statute under which he is indicted does not make the acts which it forbids or commands violations of the criminal law, since it does not declare them so or provide a punishment. It is suggested that the most it does is to provide, in Sec. 6, that a person deprived of employment in violation of Secs. 3, 4, -and 5, or either…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. State v. . BrownSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1942
  2. State v. . ParkerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1884
  3. State v. BloodworthSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
  4. State v. . SnuggsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1881
  5. State v. AddingtonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Hudson v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANYSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1955
  2. Douglas Aircraft Co. v. Local Union 379 of International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1958
  3. Commonwealth v. RobinsonWarren County Circuit Court · 1975
  4. State v. . BloodworthSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886

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