State v. Thornton

Defendant, as he had a right to do, filed in this Court a written motion in arrest of the judgment of the Superior Court, upon the ground of insufficiency of the indictment. Rule 21, Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court, 221 N.C. 544, 558; S. v. Lucas, 244 N.C. 53, 92 S.E. 2d 401.

It is an essential of juridiction that a criminal offense shall be sufficiently charged in a warrant or an indictment. S. v. Wallace and Holder ante, 378, 111 S.E. 2d 714; S. v. Strickland, 243 N.C. 100 89 S.E. 2d 781; S. v. Thorne, 238 N.C. 392, 78 S.E. 2d 140; S. v. Morgan, 226 N.C. 414, 38 S.E. 2d 166.

This Court…