State v. Johnson

HIGGINS, Justice.

The evidence concerning the crime charged and the defendant’s responsibility for it as gathered by the officers and related to the magistrate, was amply sufficient to justify the warrant of arrest and to support the finding of probable cause at the preliminary hearing. State v. Dickens, 278 N.C. 537, 180 S.E. 2d 844; Spinelli v. U.S., 393 U.S. 410, 21 L.Ed. 2d 637. The defendant’s objections to the issuance of the warrant and to the finding of probable cause are not sustained.

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