State v. McMilliam

Although the defendant was convicted of two misdemeanors for which on each count the punishment could not exceed two years, the Recorder’s Court had authority to suspend the judgment on the first count for five years. G.S. 15-200; S. v. Wilson, 216 N.C. 130, 4 S.E. 2d 440; S. v. Gibson, 233 N.C. 691, 698, 65 S.E. 2d 508; S. v. McBride, 240 N.C. 619, 83 S.E. 2d 488.

Ordinarily, a court, in deciding one case, will not take judicial notice of what may appear from its own records in another and distinct case, unless made part of the case under consideration, even though between the same parties or…