State v. Evans

This appeal should have been docketed in this Court on or before 10 :00 a.m. Tuesday, 7 April, 1953, and appellant’s brief filed by noon 14 April, 1953, according to the order allowing the petition for writ of certiorari. Rules 5 and 28 of the Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court, 233 N.C. 749 and 750, et seq. Pruitt v. Wood, 199 N.C. 788, 156 S.E. 126; S. v. Harrell, 226 N.C. 743, 40 S.E. 2d 205.

“We have held in a number of cases that the Rules of this Court, governing appeals, are mandatory and not directory . . . The Court has not only found it necessary to adopt them, but equally…