Legal Opinion
State v. Brooks
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided June 6, 1975No. 76PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COPELAND, Justice.
Defendant brings forward four questions based on five of the fourteen assignments of error properly noted in the record.
In Question #1 (Assignments #1 and #3) defendant contends that the trial court erred in failing to quash the warrants charging him with inciting a riot and engaging in a riot on the grounds that the statutes underlying these charges are unconstitutional on their face and as applied.
We begin our evaluation of defendant’s argument by examining the common law offense of riot. In State v. Cole, 249 N.C. 733, 107 S.E. 2d 732, cert. denied, 361 U.S. 867 (1959),…
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