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220 N.C. 724

18 S.E.2d 126

State v. . Williams

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided January 7, 1942

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1942-01-07

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1974

1 state decisions

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Decided 1942-01-07

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Pee Cubiam.

¶1 The record discloses that: “His Honor instructed the Clerk to take the verdict. Whereupon, the Clerk asked: ‘Gentlemen, how do you find the defendant, guilty as charged or not guilty?’ The foreman, answering for the jury, declared, ‘Not guilty.’ The Clerk then asked: ‘So say you all ?’ And the jurors answered ‘Yes.’ ”

¶2 Thereafter the trial judge resubmitted the case to the jury, who returned a verdict of guilty. The verdict of not guilty entitled the defendant to be discharged.

¶3 Eeversed.

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