State v. Sutton

The defendant in his first assignment of error challenges the right of the State to put him on trial for speeding and reckless driving on the ground that he was arrested by a policeman of the City of Kinston outside the corporate limits of the City, citing Wilson v. Mooresville, 222 N.C. 283, 22 S.E. 2d 907.

In the above cited case, Winborne, J., now Chief Justice, in considering the authority of a municipal police officer to make an arrest outside the corporate limits of his municipality, said: “. . . in the absence of statutory authority, the power of a sheriff or other peace officer is…