State v. Welborn

106 S.E.2d 204 (1958)

249 N.C. 268

STATE

v.

Leonard WELBORN.

No. 579.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 10, 1958.

J. Owen Lindley and Stedman Hines, Greensboro, for defendant-appellant.

Atty. Gen. Malcolm B. Seawell and Asst. Atty. Gen. Claude L. Love for the State.

RODMAN, Justice.

Counsel for defendant, presumably in deference to the decisions, State v. Hardy, 209 N.C. 83, 182 S.E. 831; State v. Lowe, 209 N.C. 846, 183 S.E. 749, and State v. Carpenter, 215 N.C. 635, 3 S.E.2d 34, which construe the statute (G.S. § 18-11) defining a dwelling where whisky may be lawfully possessed, said: "Your…