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  "name": "STATE v. PHILMA CLEMENT",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Clement",
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    "parties": [
      "STATE v. PHILMA CLEMENT."
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "Stacy, C. J.\nPerhaps the case would be controlled by the decision in S. v. Hiatt (1937), 211 N.C. 116, 189 S.E. 124, where an attempted appeal from a similar verdict was dismissed, but for the 1947 amendment to the statute which specifically allows an appeal \u201cfrom a finding of the issue of paternity against the defendant.\u201d Chap. 1014, Session Laws 1947; G-.S. 49-7. This amendment seems not to have been called to the judge\u2019s attention. Error is confessed.\nReversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Stacy, C. J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorney-General Moody for the State.",
      "Leon T. Vaughan for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. PHILMA CLEMENT.\n(Filed 21 September, 1949.)\nBastards \u00a7 9: Criminal Law \u00a7 68b\u2014\nUnder tbe provisions of G-.S. 49-7 a defendant in a prosecution for nonsupport of bis illegitimate child may appeal from a verdict establishing his paternity of the child notwithstanding that the verdict finds him not guilty of nonsupport.\nAppeal by defendant from Grady, Emergency Judge, at May Term, 1949, of Nash.\nCriminal prosecution on warrant charging the defendant with the fatherhood and nonsupport of an illegitimate child.\nIn the Recorder\u2019s Court of Nash County, the defendant was adjudged \u201cguilty of paternity of the child, and not guilty of nonsupport.\u201d\nThe defendant appealed to the Superior Court from that part of the verdict which established the paternity of the child. When the case was called in the Superior Court, the following order was entered: \u201cAppeal Dismissed.\u201d\nThe defendant appeals, assigning error.\nAttorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorney-General Moody for the State.\nLeon T. Vaughan for defendant."
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