State v. Dellinger

WHICHARD, Justice.

The issue is whether the Supérior Court, Mecklenburg County, which lacked jurisdiction over the juvenile offender at the time he allegedly committed the offense in question, may now obtain jurisdiction, the defendant having subsequently become an adult. Defendant was born on 26 October 1976. Sometime in 1989, when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he allegedly committed the felony of crime against nature. Defendant was indicted in superior court on 23 August 1993 when he was sixteen. He moved to dismiss, arguing that the superior court lacked subject matter jurisdiction…