State v. . Jones

By chapter 573, Laws of 1907, the Recorder’s Court was created at Winston for the trial of petty misdemeanors, but with right of appeal to the Superior Court. By section 4 of said act, larceny of goods less than $10 was made a petty misdemeanor. The defendant, convicted in said court on a charge of petty misdemeanor, in stealing ship-stuffs of the value of $3, appealed to the Superior Court, and, being put on trial de novo, objected because no indictment against him had been returned by a grand jury. The Judge overruled the exception; the defendant excepted and, there being a verdict of…