{
  "id": 8625083,
  "name": "STATE v. WILLIE MAE ALSTON",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Alston",
  "decision_date": "1952-10-08",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "299",
  "last_page": "299",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "236 N.C. 299"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:03:47.341722+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "STATE v. WILLIE MAE ALSTON."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Pee Cueiam..\nThe record indicates that the judgment was pronounced and entered without warrant or indictment, or waiver thereof (Gr.S. 15-140), and without arraignment, plea, or the intervention of a jury. It necessarily follows, then, that the judgment is void. This is conceded by the State. The judgment will be vacated and set aside. Of course, the Solicitor may send a bill, if so advised.\nEeversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Pee Cueiam.."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorney-General Bruton for the State.",
      "H. F. Seawell, Jr., and J. W. IJoyle for defendant, appellant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE v. WILLIE MAE ALSTON.\n(Filed 8 October, 1952.)\nAppeal by defendant from Stevens, J., at July Term, 1952, of Lee.\nCriminal accusation against Willie Mae Alston. At the conclusion of her testimony, given as a witness on behalf of her husband, Aaron Alston, in a case pending against him, the trial court pronounced the following-judgment : \u201cUpon Willie Mae Alston\u2019s own testimony, the Court directs a verdict of guilty of possession of 79 jars of liquor for the purpose of sale, against Willie Mae Alston and a verdict of not guilty as to Aaron Alston. Willie Mae Alston is sentenced to Woman\u2019s Prison 404 for a term of two years.\u201d\nFrom judgment so pronounced, Willie Mae Alston appealed.\nAttorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorney-General Bruton for the State.\nH. F. Seawell, Jr., and J. W. IJoyle for defendant, appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0299-01",
  "first_page_order": 351,
  "last_page_order": 351
}