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EDWARD LEE WALLACE, JR., and WOODROW WILSON HOLDER." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "PARKER, J.\nDefendant Wallace assigns as error that the Trial Court erred in imposing judgment of imprisonment upon him on his conviction of failing to heed a police siren while being \u00a1in ample hearing distance of the police siren, \u00a1as charged in the second warrant against him. Defendant Holder assigns as error that the Trial Court erred in imposing judgment of imprisonment upon him on his conviction of failing to heed a police siren while same was in reasonable distance to him, as charged in the second warrant against him.\nDefendants have filed a joint brief. In their brief 'they contend in respect to these assignments of error that the judgments of imprisonment imposed upon them on their convictions on the second warrants should be arrested, for the reason that the second warrants utterly fail to charge any criminal offense. Defendants made no motion in arrest of judgment, according to the record. However, this Court has said in S. v. Corl, 250 N.C. 252, 108 S.E. 2d 613; \u201cAn appeal will be taken as an exception to tire judgment and raises the question as to whether error in law appears upon the face of the record.\u201d\nIt is an essential of jurisdiction that a criminal offense shall be sufficiently charged in a warrant or an indictment. S. v. Strickland, 243 N.C. 100, 89 S.E. 2d 781; S. v. Thorne, 238 N.C. 392, 78 S.E. 2d 140; S. v. Scott, 237 N.C. 432, 75 S.E. 2d 154; S. v. Morgan, 226 N.C. 414, 38 S.E. 2d 166.\nA court cannot properly give judgment in a criminal action, unless it appears in the record that a criminal offense is sufficiently charged. In the absence of a motion in arrest of judgment, it is the duty of this Court to examine the whole record, and if it sees that the judgment should have been arrested, it will, ex mero motu, direct it to be done. S. v. Strickland, supra; S. v. Thorne, supra; S. v. Scott, supra; S. v. Watkins, 101 N.C. 702, 8 S.E. 346.\nThe State contends that the second warrant- against each defendant changes all the constituent elements of G.S. 20-157(a), which reads as follows: \u201cUpon the approach of any police or fire department vehicle giving audible signal by bell, siren or -exhaust whistle, th-e driver of every other vehicle -shall immediately drive the same to a position as near as possibe and -parallel to the right h-and edge or -curb, -clear of any intersection of highways, and -shall stop and remain -in such position unless otherwise directed by a police -or traffic officer until the police or fire department vehicle- shall have passed.\u201d\nWe do not agree with the -contention of the State. The second warrant against -each defendant does not -charge that the defendant was the drivei* of any vehicle, and -completely fails to aver the words of G.S. 20-157 (a), either literally -or substantially, or in equivalent words. Such being the -case, the second warrant -against each defendant utterly fails -to charge a violation of G.S. 20-157(a).\nThe State makes no -contention that -the second warrants charge any violation of -any city ordinance. It would seem that the second warrants were drawn on printed forms used- in the Municipal-County Court, and the -concluding words \u201c-and in violation o-f City Ordinance, Chapter , Section .\u201d -are mere surplusage, which should have been stricken out. See S. v. Wilson, 218 N.C. 769, 12 S.E. 2d 654. In our opinion, the second warrants charge no criminal offense. This Go-urt, ex mero motu, orders the judgment on the second warrant as to each defendant be arrested. The legal effect of -arresting the judgments is to vacate the verdicts -and jud-gm-ents of imprisonment on the second warrants below, and the State, if it is -so advised, may proceed against the defendants -fox an -alleged violation of G.S. 20-157 (a) upon a sufficient warrant or indictment. S. v. Strickland, supra; S. v. Faulkner, 241 N.C. 609, 86 S.E. 2d 81; S. v. Scott, supra; S. v. Sherrill, 82 N.C. 694.\nEach defendant has an assignment of error to the first warrant, -similar to his -assignment of error to -the -second warrant. While they made no motions in arrest of judgments of imprisonment imposed on their convictions on the first warrants, they contend in -their joint brief that the judgments of imprisonment on the first warrants should be arrested, for the reason that -while the first warrants charge the offenses in practically the precise words of G.S. 20-140, they then allege \u201cin -that he did . . and -fail to allege explicit facts showing acts by the defendants in violation of G.S. 20-140. The first warrants charge the offense practically literally in the words of G.S. 20-140, (-a), (b), and -are sufficient. S. v. Randolph, 228 N.C. 228, 45 S.E. 2d 132; S. v. Gregory, 223 N.C. 415, 27 S.E. 2d 140; S. v. Wilson, supra.\nEach defendant has an -assignment of error -to the third warrant, similar to his -assignment of error to the second warrant. These assignments of error are not set out in their 'brief, and in support of .them no reason or argument is stated or authority cited. They are taken as abandoned by defendants. Rule 28, Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court. 221 N.C. 544, 563; S. v. Clayton, ante, 261, 111 S.E. 2d 299.\nEach defendant .assigns as errors the denial by the trial court of his motions for judgments of nonsuit in each case against him renewed at the close of \u2019all the evidence. G.S. 15-173.\nThe State\u2019s evidence tends to show the following facts: About 9:00 p. m. o\u2019clock on 18 May 1958 two officers of the city of Greensboro Police Department were on duty, and were sitting in a patrol oar parked beside .the Western Cafe in the vicinity of Spring Garden Street. One of the officers .saw a 1955 Ford truck traveling east on Spring Garden Street at a speed of 40 to 45 miles an hour, where the speed limit for that area was 35 miles an hour. The officer driving the patrol oar drove into Spring Garden Street, as the truck made a left turn into Copeland Street. The patrol car followed the truck. The truck .swung around in the Richfield Service Station at the intersection of Spring Garden and Copeland Streets, and was directly facing the patrol car. The officer drove the patrol oar up facing the truck, turned on the red light on top of the patrol oar, got out, 'and started walking to the truck. Whereupon, the driver of the truck put it in reverse, backed up, and entered Spring Garden Street traveling east at- a high rate of speed. The officer jumped back in the patrol car and with the red light flashing on the patrol car and the \u00a1siren sounding, \u25a0pursued the -truck. The truck continued east on Spring Garden Street, reaching -a speed of about 75 to 80 miles an hour. The truck ran through a red light on Spring Garden Street, where it intersects Oakland Avenue. The truck turned left on to Park Terrace, proceeded down Masonic Drive, turned left into Oliffside Terrace, and came all \u25a0the way back up to Spring Garden Street. The truck went a short distance west on Spring Garden Street, and turned left into Pinecroft Road, and continued south on Pinecroft Road to \u00a1about 250 yards from the High Point Road, where the officer stopped the truck. The truck ran through a stop .sign .at the intersection of Oliffside Terrace and Oakland Avenue; it ran through another stop sign .at Collier\u2019s Drive and Spring Garden Street. The truck entered Pinecroft Road at a very high rate of speed, completely on the wrong side of the center division of the intersection, \u00a1and continued on the wrong side until \u00a9topped. The maximum speed limit through the area of pursuit is 35 miles an hour. Pinoroft Road along the path of pursuit is completely residential, except for two service -stations. Along Pinecroft Road the truck was operated at a speed of about 75 miles an hour. The pursuit covered a distance of around two and one-half miles, and lasted three to four minutes. During the entire time of the pursuit the red light on the patrol car was blinking, and its siren was sounding. The truck was stopped by the patrol oar bumping it twice from behind, hooking bumpers with it, and stopping.\nThe driver of the patrol car, when the truck was stopped, got out \u25a0and went to the left side of the truck. Defendant Holder was sitting under the wheel, next to him was one Doss, and next .to him was defendant Wallace. Then and there defendant Wallace said he was the owner of the truck, and in reply to an officer\u2019s question why they nan, he replied, \u201cthe panic was on,\u201d saying that several times.\nOfficer John Barham went to the scene, and brought defendants to the Police Department. He asked defendant Holder what made him run from the police officers. Holder replied, \u201cif he had ever gotten on the Red Road -that they would never have caught him.\u201d Defendant Holder told Officer Barham he was driving the truck.\nDefendant Holder told Sergeant S. N. Ford of the Greensboro Police Department .that he tried to outrun the officers, and defendant Wallace did not say anything to him about stopping the truck or to stop driving in the manner he was driving, until the police car started gaming on them at Pinecroft Driving Range, which is about 300 to 350 yards from the High Point Road, where the truck stopped Defendant Wallace told Sergeant Ford that the track was bis. Sergeant Ford asked defendant Wallace why he did not stop the truck. Defendant Wallace replied: \u201cHe did not try to stop it, and did not tell him to stop it, until the police oar started 'gaining on him on the Pine-croft Road, and he .saw they wore going to catch him or hit him, and he told him to stop it, and that was when the police oar hit him, and he did stop the truck.\u201d\nDefendant Wallace contends that \u00a1all the evidence shows he was not driving the truck, and \u201cthat the owner of a truck is not vicariously liable for the acts of the driver in a criminal action.\u201d The State\u2019s evidence tends to show that defendant Wallace told Sergeant S. N. Ford of the Greensboro Police Department \u201cthe truck was his\u201d; it further tends to show that defendant Wallace was riding in the truck on the seat with its driver the defendant Holder during the entire time of its pursuit by the police ear, and it further, tends to show that defendant Wallace told Sergeant S. N. Ford, \u201cthat he (Wallace) did not try to stop it, and did not tell him to -stop it, until the police car started gaining on him on the Pinecroft Road, and he saw they were going to catch him or hit him, 'and he told him to stop it, and that was when the police car hit him, and he did stop the truck.\u201d Such evidence on the part of the State permits the jury to draw the fair inference that defendant Wallace, as owner, 'bad the right to control the operation of the track, was 'controlling its operation, and that he aided and abetted defendant Holder in the commission of the offenses alleged' in the first and third warrants against him, and is sufficient to require the submission to the jury of the cases against defendant Wallace which are alleged in the first and third warrants, because \u2019all who participate in the commission of a misdemeanor, as aiders and abettors, 'axe guilty as principals. S. v. Gibbs, 227 N.C. 677, 44 S.E. 2d 201; Story v. U. S., 16 F. 2d 342, 53 A.L.R. 246, cert. denied, 274 U.S 739, 71 L. Ed. 1318. See S. v. Trott, 190 N.C. 674, 130 S.E. 627. We do not consider the motions for judgments of nonsuit as to the second warrants, because the second warrants charge no criminal offense.\nBoth defendants contend that the offenses charged against them in the first and third warrants should have been nonsuited, for the reason that the first warrants charge that the reckless driving of the Ford Truck was \u201cupon Pinecroft Road at High Point Road, Greensboro, North Carolina,\u201d and that the third warrants charge that the driving of the Ford Track at a speed of 80 miles an hour' in a 35-miles-an-hour residential district was \u201con Pinecroft Road at High Point Road, Greensboro, North Carolina,\u201d and while the State\u2019s evidence shows that the Ford Track was operated on Pinecroft Road, it further shows that it was stopped bjr the police on Pinecroft Road 250 yards from the High Point Road, and, therefore, there is a fatal variance between the averments of the warrants and the evidence of the State.\nThis Court said in Waynesville v. Satterthwait, 136 N.C. 226, 48 S.E. 661: \u201cThe word \u2018at,\u2019 when used to designate a place, may, and often must mean, \u2018near to.\u2019 It is less definite than \u2018in\u2019 or \u2018on\u2019; at the house may be in or near the house. Web. Inter. Dic., 95; Cent. Dic., Vol. I.\u201d See also Purifoy v. R. R., 108 N.C. 100, 12 S.E. 741; 7 C.J.S., At, Place, pp. 153-155.\nThe Trial Court properly overruled each defendant\u2019s motions for judgments of nonsuit in respect to the offenses charged in the first and third warrants.\nThe court charged the jury that the defendants are charged with three offenses: one of speeding in excess of 35 miles an hour in a 35-mile zone, two, of reckless driving, and three, of failing to heed a siren of a police car.\nImmediately thereafter the Judge charged as follows, which is assigned by defendants as error: \u201cNow, members of the jury, the Court charges you that under the evidence as to the 'defendant Holder, that this evidence points conclusively to the fact that the motor vehicle on this occasion was being driven in violation of (those laws, but that you must be satisfied \u00a1beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant Holder was doing the driving on this occasion.\u201d\nThis 'assignment of error is sustained. This Court said in S. v. Owenby, 226 N.C. 521, 39 S.E. 2d 378: \u201cNor is it permissible for the Judge 'in charging the jury or at any time during the trial, to intimate whether a material fact has been fully or sufficiently established, it being the true office and province of the jury to weigh the testimony andl to decide upon its adequacy to prove iany issuable fact.\u201d See also the multitude of other cases appearing in the Code Annotation to G.S. 1-180.\nFor error in the charge, the defendants are entitled to a new \u00a1trial on the first and third warrants.\nNew trial on first and third warrants.\nJudgment arrested on second warrant.", "type": "majority", "author": "PARKER, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Malcolm B. Seawell, Attorney General, and H. Horton Rountree, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.", "Robert S. Cahoon for defendants, appellants." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "STATE v. EDWARD LEE WALLACE, JR., and WOODROW WILSON HOLDER.\n(Filed 16 December, 1959.)\n1. Criminal Law \u00a7 154\u2014\nAn appeal itself constitutes an exception to the judgment and raises the question of whether error of law appears upon the face of the record.\n2. Criminal Law \u00a7\u00a7 13, 139\u2014\nIt is an essential of criminal jurisdiction that the warrant or indictment sufficiently charge an offense, and the Supreme Court will take notice ex mero mo tu of the insufficiency of the warrant or indictment, even in the absence of a motion in arrest of judgment.\n3. Automobiles \u00a7 82\u2014\nA warrant which fails to charge that defendant was driving a motor vehicle at the time he failed to heed a police siren is fatally defective. \u25a0G.S. 20-157(a).\n4. Indictment and \u2019Warrant \u00a7 9\u2014\nThe words \u201cin violation of city ordinance, chapter ., section .,\u201d added to a warrant after the charge of an offense against the General 'Statutes of this State are surplusage and should be stricken.\n5. Criminal Law \u00a7 121\u2014\nThe arrest of judgments vacates the verdicts and judgments, but the State may thereafter proceed against defendants upon sufficient warrants or indictments.\n6. Automobiles \u00a7 65\u2014\nWarrants for reckless driving which charged the offense in the language of the statute are sufficient. G.S. 20-140, (a), (b).\n7. Criminal Law \u00a7 159\u2014\nAssignments of error not set out in the brief and in support of which no reason or argument is stated or authority cited are deemed abandoned. Rule 28, Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court.\n8. Automobiles \u00a7\u00a7 65, 82\u2014 Evidence held sufficient to support conviction of driver and of owner of vehicle riding therein of reckless chiving and failing to heed police siren.\nThe State\u2019s evidence tended to show that an officer driving a patrol car, saw and followed a truck being driven over 35 m.p.h. in a residential district, that after the truck had turned around and stopped the officer stopped \u00a1the patrol car, turned on the red light on its top, and got out and started walking toward the truck, whereupon the driver of the truck put it in reverse, and .then entered an intersecting street, that the officer got back in the patrol car and began a chase during which the truck was driven at a very high rate of speed through stop lights etc., that when the truck was finally stopped one of the defendants was driving and the other defendant, a passenger in the truck, stated that he was the owner of \u00a1the truck and that he did not tell the driver to stop until he saw that the police car was overtaking them. Held the evidence is sufficient to overrule nonsuit as 'to each defendant on charges of speeding' 'and reckless driving, it being sufficient to show that the owner of the truck had .the right to control its operation, was controlling its operation, and aided and abetted the driver in the commission of the offenses.\n9. Criminal Law \u00a7 9\u2014\nAll who participate in the commission of misdemeanors as adders and abettors are guilty as principals.\n10. Automobiles \u00a7 65\u2014\nTbe fact that warrants charge defendants with reckless driving upon a named road \u201cat\u201d an intersecting road, with evidence that the defendants\u2019 vehicle was operated on the named road in a reckless manner but was finally stopped some 250 yards from tbe named intersecting road, does not justify nonsuit for variance, since word \u201c\u00a1at\u201d when used to designate a place is less definite than \u201cin\u201d or \u201con\u201d, and often means \u201cnear to\u201d.\n11. Criminal Law \u00a7\u00a7 104, 108\u2014\nAn instruction to the effect that the evidence conclusively established all 'the elements of the offense charged but 'that the jury miust be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant was the culprit must be held for error, since the court may not in/timiate whether a material fact has been fully or sufficiently established. 6.S. 1-180.\nAppeal by defendants from Crissman, J., 13 April 1959 Term, of Guilfohd (Greensboro Division) for \u00a1the trial of criminal actions.\nEach defendant was tried in the Superior Court, on \u00a1appeals from adverse judgments in the Municipal-County Court, Criminal Division, on three warrants charging him with a violation of the motor vehicle laws of the State.\nWARRANTS AGAINST EDWARD LEE WALLACE, JR.\nThe first warrant, as amended in the Superior Court by the Solid-tor for the State, and without objection by defendant, charges that defendant Wallace on 18 May 1958, \u201cat and in Guilford County, except High Point, Deep River and Jamestown Townships, did unlawfully and willfully operate a motor vehicle on a public highway upon Pineeroft Road at High Point Road, Greensboro, North Carolina, at or about 9:00 P. M., carelessly and heedlessly in a willful and wanton disregard of the rights and safety of others and without due caution and circumspection and at a speed and in a manner so as to endanger and :be likely to endanger person 'and property in that he did. all in violation General Statutes of North Carolina Chapter 20 Section 140.\u201d\nThe second warrant charges that defendant Wallace on 18 May 1958, \u201cat and in Guilford County, except High Point, Deep River and Jamestown Townships, did unlawfully, and willfuly violate the motor vehicle laws of the State of North Carolina, to wit; did fail to heed a police siren while being in ample hearing distance of the said Police Siren, on Pineeroft Road, at High Point Road, Greensboro, North Carolina, against the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State and in violation of City Ordinance, Chapter , Section\nThe third warrant charges that defendant Wallace on 18 May 1958, \u201cat and in Guilford County, except High Point, Deep River and Jamestown Townships, did unlawfully and willfuly operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a speed in excess of 35 miles per hour in a residential district, to wit: 80 miles per hour on Pineeroft Road at High Point Road, Greensboro, North Carolina, against the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State and in violation of Citjr Ordinance, Chapter , Section 9)\nWARRANTS AGAINST WOODROW WILSON HOLDER.\nThe first and third warrants are in practically the identical words as in the first and third warrants against defendant Wallace. The Solicitor in -the Superior Court amended the first warrant exactly as he did the first warrant against the defendant Wallace.\nThe second warrant charges that defendant Holder on 18 May 1958, \u201cat and in Guilford County, except High Point, Deep River and Jamestown Townships, did unlawfully and willfuly violate the Motor Vehicle Laws of the State of North Carolina, to wit; did fail to heed a Police Siren while same was in reasonable distance to the said defendant, on Pineeroft and High Point Roads, Greensboro, North Carolina, against the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State and in violation of City Ordinance, Chapter , Section .\u201d\nUpon motion of the Solicitor for the State, and without objection by the defendants, the 'court ordered all six cases consolidated for trial.\nPlea: Not Guilty \u00a1by each defendant as to all charges against him. Verdict: Each defendant is guilty of all three charges in the warrants against him.\nFrom sentences of imprisonment in each of the three cases against him, each defendant appealed to the Supreme Court.\nMalcolm B. Seawell, Attorney General, and H. Horton Rountree, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.\nRobert S. Cahoon for defendants, appellants." }, "file_name": "0378-01", "first_page_order": 422, "last_page_order": 430 }