State v. . Saleeby
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Horton, J., at August criminal term of Pitt. Tbe defendant was arrested on a warrant issued from the mayor’s court of Greenville, charging (1) possession of liquor for sale; and (2) charging the sale thereof to one Guy Catón; and was bound over to the recorder’s court.
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Appeal by defendant from Horton, J., at August criminal term of Pitt. Tbe defendant was arrested on a warrant issued from the mayor’s court of Greenville, charging (1) possession of liquor for sale; and (2) charging the sale thereof to one Guy Catón; and was bound over to the recorder’s court. Under Public-Local Laws 1915, ch. 681, sec. 3, establishing an inferior court for Pitt, the judge was given power to transfer any cause therein pending to the Superior Court, and the defendant desiring a jury trial, the ease was transferred to the Superior Court.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The defendant was convicted upon both counts on a general verdict. There was evidence of the sale of liquor by the defendant to the three State’s witnesses, and also that the defendant was a source from whom the bell-boys of the Proctor Hotel had obtained whiskey for the past two years for guests at that hotel.
The defendant’s first assignment of error was that there was no bill of indictment by the grand jury. It was not necessary that a bill of indictment should have been found against the defendant in the Superior Court, as the lower court had jurisdiction of this misdemeanor. S. v. Lytle,…
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- State v. Lytle.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
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- State v. . ButlerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1919
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