MATTER OF COWLEY

No. COA94-770.

461 S.E.2d 804 (1995)

In the Matter of Ronald Douglas COWLEY.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Michael F. Easley by Associate Attorney General Elizabeth R. Bare and Investigative Law Clerk/Attorney Sondra C. Panico, for State.

Terry W. Alford, Spring Hope, for respondent appellant.


COZORT, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether a gun must be operable in order for a student to be adjudicated delinquent under the statute prohibiting the possession of "any gun" on educational property. We hold the gun does not have to be operable, and we affirm the trial court's order.

On 7 December 1993, respondent, a fifteen-year-old student at Nash Central Junior High School, admitted to the school's principal that he was in possession of a handgun...

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