STATE v. SUMNER

No. 5.

61 S.E.2d 84 (1950)

232 N.C. 386

STATE v. SUMNER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 20, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Henry LeRoy, Elizabeth City, for defendant-appellant.

Attorney General Harry McMullan, Assistant Attorney General T. W. Bruton, and Walter F. Brinkley, Lexington, for the State.


BARNHILL, Justice.

Defendant moved in this Court that the judgment pronounced be arrested. The motion must be denied. While the criminal charge contained in the warrant might have been more precisely stated, it is sufficient, as alleged, to sustain the judgment and bar another prosecution for the same offense. G.S. § 15-153. It is sufficiently intelligible and explicit to (1) inform the defendant of the charge he must answer, (2) enable him to prepare his defense...

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