State v. Joyner

ARNOLD, Judge.

Defendant contends that the superior court lacked jurisdition to try him for misdemeanor possession of marijuana without amending the original warrant or procuring a new warrant. According to defendant, the record does not reveal that he received a trial on the misdemeanor charge in district court, *363but that the district court, upon finding no probable cause for the felony charge, summarily found him guilty without affording him a trial on the lesser misdemeanor charge. Therefore, defendant asserts, the superior court had no derivative jurisdiction over him.

G.S. 7A-271(a) (5)…