State v. Williams

MOORE, Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether the trial court correctly quashed the warrants on the grounds that they charged violations of an ordinance which was invalid for the reason that it was “a local ordinance which purports to override a statute applicable to the entire State.”

Defendants’ motions to quash raise the question of the sufficiency of the warrants to charge the commission of a criminal offense. State v. Vestal, 281 N.C. 517, 189. S.E. 2d 152 (1972); State v. Brewer, 258 N.C. 533, 129 S.E. 2d 262 (1962). It is essential to jurisdiction that a criminal…