State v. Morgan

Article I, Section 13 of the North Carolina Constitution provides that “the Legislature may, however, provide other means of trial, for petty misdemeanors, with the right of appeal.” This Court said in S. v. Hall, 240 N.C. 109, 81 S.E. 2d 189, that Sections 12 and 13 of Article I of the State Constitution provide, “in essence, that the Superior Court has no jurisdiction to try an accused for a specific misdemeanor on the warrant of an inferior court unless he is first tried and convicted for such misdemeanor in the inferior court and appeals to the Superior Court from the sentence pronounced…