{
  "id": 8526487,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. RICHARD LEE HICKERSON",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Hickerson",
  "decision_date": "1982-11-02",
  "docket_number": "No. 828SC399",
  "first_page": "356",
  "last_page": "357",
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      "cite": "59 N.C. App. 356"
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "judges": [
      "Judges WEBB and BECTON concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. RICHARD LEE HICKERSON"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "HEDRICK, Judge.\nThe defendant was charged in a four-count bill of indictment in the Superior Court with felonious possession of marijuana, carrying a concealed weapon, a misdemeanor, driving under the influence, a misdemeanor, and driving under the influence a second offense, a misdemeanor. All four offenses allegedly occurred on 12 February 1982.\nDefendant made a motion in the Superior Court \u201cto quash\u201d Count IV of the bill of indictment, and the State appealed from an order dismissing Count IV.\nThere is absolutely nothing in this record to indicate that the Superior Court had jurisdiction to rule on the defendant\u2019s motion to quash Count IV of the bill of indictment, a misdemeanor. Thus, we have no jurisdiction to hear the appeal.\nAppeal dismissed.\nJudges WEBB and BECTON concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "HEDRICK, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Rufus L. Edmisten, by Assistant Attorney General Jane P. Gray and Deputy Attorney General William W. Melvin, for the State, appellant.",
      "Duke and Brown, by John E. Duke, for the defendant, ap-pellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. RICHARD LEE HICKERSON\nNo. 828SC399\n(Filed 2 November 1982)\nCriminal Law \u00a7 158\u2014 failure of record to indicate superior court\u2019s jurisdiction \u2014 no jurisdiction in appellate court\nWhere there was nothing in the record to indicate that the superior court had jurisdiction to rule on a defendant\u2019s motion to quash a count of his bill of indictment, a misdemeanor, the Court of Appeals had no jurisdiction to hear the appeal.\nAPPEAL by State from Stevens, Judge. Order entered 5 April 1982 in Superior Court, WAYNE County. Heard in Court of Appeals 20 October 1982.\nAttorney General Rufus L. Edmisten, by Assistant Attorney General Jane P. Gray and Deputy Attorney General William W. Melvin, for the State, appellant.\nDuke and Brown, by John E. Duke, for the defendant, ap-pellee."
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