State v. Thompson

When the appeal was called for hearing in this Court, counsel for defendant moved that the judgment entered below be arrested, for that the warrant was issued on 3 January, 1950, prior to the birth of the illegitimate child on 24 May, 1950, and the amendment permitted in the court below resulted in the trial and conviction of the defendant upon an offense entirely different from that charged (if an offense was charged) in the original warrant.

It is well settled by this Court that the power of the Superior Court to allow amendments to warrants is very comprehensive. S. v. Stone, 231 N.C. 324,…