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262 N.C. 536

138 S.E.2d 138

State v. Whaley

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided September 30, 1964

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1964-09-30

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“We have repeatedly held that bills of indictment charging felonies, in which there has been a failure to use the word `feloniously,' are fatally defective, unless the Legislature otherwise expressly provides.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Whaley v. North Carolina

Relies on State v. Sutton · State v. . Callett

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1964-09-30

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2003

3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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P®R CuRIAm.

¶1 In this Court defendant moves in arrest of the judgment in case No. 5632, on the third count, for that the bill of indictment does not contain the word “feloniously.” A violation of G.S. 14-89.1 is a felony. We have repeatedly held that bills of indictment charging felonies, in which there has been a failure to use the word “feloniously,” are fatally defective, unless the Legislature otherwise expressly provides. State v. Callett, 211 N.C. 563, 191 S.E. 27. The motion must be sustained and the judgment arrested. This does not entitle defendant to be discharged on this count. The State, if it so elects, may put defendant to trial on a bill properly charging “Safecracking.”

¶2 We find no error in the trial below on the other counts in the bills of indictment. However, since the sentences on those counts are to begin at the expiration of the sentence on the third count in the bill of indictment in case No. 5632 (safecracking), the judgments on such counts must be set aside and the cause remanded for judgment thereon. State v. Sutton, 244 N.C. 679, 94 S.E. 2d 797.

¶3 No. 5632 (third count) —Judgment arrested.

¶4 No. 5632 (first and second counts) and No. 5632B (first and second counts) ■— Sentences vacated and cause remanded for judgment.

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