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STATE v. DORSETT

No. 6818SC455.

164 S.E.2d 607 (1968)

3 N.C. App. 331

STATE of North Carolina v. George F. DORSETT. STATE of North Carolina v. Larry Franklin DORSETT.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 31, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. W. Burton, Atty. Gen., by William W. Melvin, Asst. Atty. Gen., and T. Buie Costen, Staff Atty., Raleigh, for the State.

Jordan, Wright, Nichols, Caffrey & Hill, by Luke Wright, Greensboro, for defendants.

BROCK, Judge.

Defendants assign as error that the trial judge ruled the Ordinance to be constitutional and denied the motions to quash the warrants.

A statute or ordinance is presumed to have meaning and will be upheld if its meaning is ascertainable with reasonable certainty by proper construction. Hobbs v. Moore County, 267 N.C. 665, 149 S.E.2d 1. If a statute is susceptible to two interpretations...

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