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229 N.C. 413

50 S.E.2d 1

State v. . Harris

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided November 3, 1948

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1948-11-03

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1969

2 state decisions

Relies on Salley v. Fayetteville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · State v. . Morgan · State v. . Johnson

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Decided 1948-11-03

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Ervin, .1.

¶1 The defendant moved in arrest of judgment in this Court on the ground that the warrant fails to charge the commission of a crime. Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court, Rule 21, 221 N. C. 558; S. v. Jones, 218 N. C. 734, 12 S. E. (2) 292; S. v. Ballangee, 191 N. C. 700, 132 S. E. 795; S. v. Marsh, 132 N. C. 1000, 43 S. E. 828, 67 L. R. A. 179.

¶2 It is evident that the draftsman of the criminal pleading under review undertook to charge that the accused is a vagrant within the purview of G.S. 14-336. Lie did not, however, accomplish his purpose because the averments of the complaint do not bring the defendant within any of the seven classes of persons described in the statute. Thus, the warrant is fatally defective in substance in that it fails to charge a crime. This being true, the motion in arrest of judgment must be sustained. S. v. Morgan, 226 N. C. 414, 38 S. E. (2) 166; S. v. Johnson, 226 N. C. 266, 37 S. E. (2) 678; S. v. Vanderlip, 225 N. C. 610, 35 S. E. (2) 885; *414 S. v. Jones, supra; S. v. Freeman, 216 N. C. 161, 4 S. E. (2) 316; S. v. Callett, 211 N. C. 563, 191 S. E. 27.

¶3 Judgment arrested.

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