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232 N.C. 332

State v. Peterson

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 9, 1950

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1950-06-09

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1978

2 state decisions

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Decided 1950-06-09

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Per Curiam.

¶1The defendant was convicted by the jury of violating the statute (G.S. 14-202) which makes it a misdemeanor to “peep secretly into any room occupied by a woman.” From judgment imposing sentence defendant appealed.

¶2The only error assigned by the defendant is the denial of his motion for judgment of nonsuit. It was contended that the evidence was insufficient to show that the lighted room into which the defendant was seen peeping on the night in question was then occupied by a woman. But from the record we note a State’s witness testified he saw the defendant looking through a Venetian blind into a room usually occupied by a woman, that the defendant ran, and as witness, in immediate pursuit, passed this window he “saw someone in the room, a woman in the room.”"

¶3We think the evidence sufficient to carry the case to the jury.

¶4In the trial we find

¶5No error.

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