STATE v. COOKE

No. 580.

98 S.E.2d 885 (1957)

246 N.C. 518

STATE v. Phillip COOKE. STATE v. Leon WOLFE. STATE v. George SIMKINS, Jr. STATE v. Joseph STURDIVENT. STATE v. Samuel MURRAY. STATE v. Elijah H. HERRING.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 28, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Patto, Atty. Gen. and Robert E. Giles, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

J. Kenneth Lee, Major S. High, Greensboro, C. O. Pearson, and William A. Marsh, Jr., Durham, for defendant appellants.


RODMAN, Justice.

The crime of which defendants stand convicted is the entrance without a bona fide claim of right on land in the possession of another after having been forbidden to so enter. The act is made a crime by statute, G.S. § 14-134. The statute carries the heading "Trespass on land after being forbidden * * *."

"* * * every unauthorized, and therefore unlawful, entry into the close of another...

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