State v. . Doster
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Cooke, J., at Fall Terra, 1911, of UNION. Criminal action beard on appeal from justice’s court. On the trial it appeared that defendant on 29 October, 1911, tbe said date being Sunday, was found off bis premises and having a shotgun, etc., witbin Monroe Township and outside of the city of Monroe, contrary to Eevisal, sec. 3842. That on warrant issued by M. L. Flow, a justice of the peace of Monroe Township, resident within the city of Monroe, defendant was…
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Appeal from Cooke, J., at Fall Terra, 1911, of UNION. Criminal action beard on appeal from justice’s court. On the trial it appeared that defendant on 29 October, 1911, tbe said date being Sunday, was found off bis premises and having a shotgun, etc., witbin Monroe Township and outside of the city of Monroe, contrary to Eevisal, sec. 3842. That on warrant issued by M. L. Flow, a justice of the peace of Monroe Township, resident within the city of Monroe, defendant was convicted for said offense, and on appeal to the Superior Court was again convicted and sentenced. Defendant having raised…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
The act establishing the recorder’s court for the city of Monroe, Laws 1907, ch. 860, in section 4, subsec. 3, confers upon said court exclusive original jurisdiction of all criminal offenses within Monroe Township in said county of Union “which are now or may hereafter be within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace.” Section 3842 creates an offense which is within the ordinary jurisdiction of the justice of the peace, and if the act in question is valid the position of defendant must be sustained. The Constitution, Article IY, sec. 27, among other things provides that “The several…
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