Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1948

State v. . Harris

State v. . Harris
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided November 3, 1948 · Ervin
50 S.E.2d 1; 229 N.C. 413; 1948 N.C. LEXIS 326 (South Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

State v. . Harris

Opinion of the Court

Ervin, .1.

The defendant moved in arrest of judgment in this Court on the ground that the warrant fails to charge the commission of a crime. Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court, Rule 21, 221 N. C. 558; S. v. Jones, 218 N. C. 734, 12 S. E. (2) 292; S. v. Ballangee, 191 N. C. 700, 132 S. E. 795; S. v. Marsh, 132 N. C. 1000, 43 S. E. 828, 67 L. R. A. 179.

It is evident that the draftsman of the criminal pleading under review undertook to charge that the accused is a vagrant within the purview of G.S. 14-336. Lie did not, however, accomplish his purpose because the averments of the complaint do not bring the defendant within any of the seven classes of persons described in the statute. Thus, the warrant is fatally defective in substance in that it fails to charge a crime. This being true, the motion in arrest of judgment must be sustained. S. v. Morgan, 226 N. C. 414, 38 S. E. (2) 166; S. v. Johnson, 226 N. C. 266, 37 S. E. (2) 678; S. v. Vanderlip, 225 N. C. 610, 35 S. E. (2) 885; *414 S. v. Jones, supra; S. v. Freeman, 216 N. C. 161, 4 S. E. (2) 316; S. v. Callett, 211 N. C. 563, 191 S. E. 27.

Judgment arrested.

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