State v. Jones

MORGAN, Justice.

*341 **548 Defendant Daryl Lamont Jones was convicted of operating a motor vehicle when having an open container of alcohol in the passenger compartment while alcohol remained in his system. Defendant appealed his conviction to the Court of Appeals which, in a divided opinion, found that the citation that charged the offense was legally sufficient to properly invoke the trial court's subject-matter jurisdiction. State v. Jones , --- N.C. App. ----, ----, 805 S.E.2d 701 , 706 (2017). The dissenting judge **549 did not believe that the citation met the statutory requirements for a…