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  "name": "STATE v. JOHN PHILLIPS",
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      "STATE v. JOHN PHILLIPS."
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        "text": "Stacy, C. J.\nUpon tbe call of tbe case here tbe defendant lodged a motion in arrest of judgment for that it is not alleged tbe defendant obtained tbe advances \u201cwitb intent to cheat or defraud.\u201d G. S.\u00bf 14-104. Tbe defect is fatal, and it appears on tbe face of tbe record. S. v. Foster, ante, 72; S. v. Norman, 110 N. C., 484, 14 S. E., 968. Tbe warrant charges no offense.\nTbe motion is well interposed and must be allowed. S. v. Morgan, 226 N. C., 414, 38 S. E. (2d), 166.\nJudgment arrested.",
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        "author": "Stacy, C. J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General McMullan and Assistant Aitorneys-General Bruton, Rhodes, and Moody for the State.",
      "J. Grover Bee for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. JOHN PHILLIPS.\n(Filed 19 December, 1947.)\n1. False Pretense \u00a7 2\u2014\nA warrant charging defendant with, obtaining a money advance under promise to do certain work, and with failure to perform the work, without alleging that the advances were obtained with intent to cheat or defraud, is fatally defective. G. S., 14-104.\n2. Criminal Law \u00a7 56\u2014\nWhere the warrant upon which defendant is tried is fatally defective, motion in arrest of judgment will be allowed even though interposed for the first time in the Supreme Court on appeal.\nAppeal by defendant from Bone, J., at July Term, 1947, of Durham. Criminal prosecution on warrant charging tbe defendant with unlawfully obtaining $27.81, as money advanced, \u201cunder promise to do certain work for Robert Dunn and did then and there fail and refuse to do tbe work or any part of it with tbe exception of one day\u2019s work.\u201d\nTbe case was tried in tbe Recorder\u2019s Court and de novo on defendant\u2019s appeal to tbe Superior Court.\nVerdict: \u201cGuilty as charged in tbe warrant.\u201d\nJudgment: Thirty days on tbe roads.\nTbe defendant appeals, assigning errors.\nAttorney-General McMullan and Assistant Aitorneys-General Bruton, Rhodes, and Moody for the State.\nJ. Grover Bee for defendant."
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