State v. Felmet

MARTIN (Harry C.), Judge.

The superior court has no jurisdiction to try a defendant upon a specific misdemeanor charge on a warrant, unless he is first tried and convicted in the district court, and then appeals to the superior court from the sentence pronounced against him on his conviction for such misdemeanor. State v. Hall, 240 N.C. 109, 81 S.E. 2d 189 (1954); State v. Byrd, 4 N.C. App. 672, 167 S.E. 2d 522 (1969). Defendant was convicted of trespass, a misdemeanor proscribed by N.C.G.S. 14-134. The district courts of North Carolina have exclusive original jurisdiction of misdemeanors.…