STATE v. LEWIS

No. 250.

164 S.E.2d 177 (1968)

274 N.C. 438

STATE of North Carolina v. Jessie B. LEWIS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 20, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. Wade Bruton and Deputy Atty. Gen., Harry W. McGalliard for the State.

Fields, Cooper & Henderson, Rocky Mount, for defendant appellant.


BOBBITT, Justice.

At his trial at October 1967 Criminal Session, defendant contended, as he had contended at a habeas corpus hearing before Judge Cowper on February 13, 1967, that he was not Jessie B. Lewis.

At August 1955 Term, Jessie B. Lewis had pleaded nolo contendere to the indictment. Judgment imposing a prison sentence of ten years was pronounced. He escaped. Defendant was brought or returned to prison in North Carolina in 1965. On January...

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