State v. . McLeod

This is the fundamental question upon which decision on this appeal rests: Did the recorder of the recorder’s court of Harnett County have authority on 26 April, 1941, to modify the judgment entered by him on 8 April, 1941, from which defendant had appealed to Superior Court, and to permit defendant to withdraw such appeal? The answer is “No.”

The terms of the recorder’s court of Harnett County, a court of record, presided over by a recorder, are regulated by the statute, under which the court was created and now exists, Public-Local Laws 1913, chapter 602, section 19, as rewritten and…