{
  "id": 8566026,
  "name": "STATE v. WILLIE JAY GUTHRIE",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Guthrie",
  "decision_date": "1967-03-22",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "699",
  "last_page": "700",
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      "cite": "269 N.C. 699"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "STATE v. WILLIE JAY GUTHRIE."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER Curiam.\nAppellant assigns as error (1) the denial of his motion in arrest of judgment; (2) the denial of his motion to set the verdict aside; and (3) the denial of his motion for a new trial. Obviously, the assignments of error are without merit.\nThe bill of indictment properly charges the felony of which defendant was convicted and there was plenary evidence to support the verdict. Appellant\u2019s counsel frankly states he \u201cis unable to ascertain any prejudicial errors of law\u201d in the trial and none appears in the record before us. Hence, the verdict and judgment will not be disturbed.\nNo error.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "PER Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Bruton and Staff Attorney Brown for the State.",
      "E. Glenn Scott, Jr., for defendant appellant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE v. WILLIE JAY GUTHRIE.\n(Filed 22 March, 1967.)\nAppeal by defendant Willie Jay Guthrie from Froneberger, J., December 5, 1966 Schedule \u201cA\u201d Criminal Session of Mecklenburg.\nWillie Jay Guthrie and William Ross Higgins, indicted jointly for the armed robbery of Betty Lil Griffith, a violation of G.S. 14-87, were tried for common law robbery.\nEvidence was offered by the State and by defendant Guthrie. The State\u2019s evidence, in brief summary, tended to show the facts narrated below.\nOn October 26, 1966, about 4:00 p.m., Mrs. Griffith, an employee of Gulf Life Insurance Company, was walking in a westerly direction along the sidewalk on East Morehead Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was taking her employer\u2019s deposit, consisting of cash and checks she had in her pocketbook, to the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, located about two blocks west of her employer\u2019s office and on the same side of Morehead Street. In front of the Office Supply Building, which is separated from the bank building by an alley, Guthrie and Higgins grabbed her and attempted to jerk the pocketbook from her arms. When Mrs. Griffith clutched her pocketbook and struggled with them, they threw her down into Morehead Street. There Guthrie \u201cfinally\u201d got her pocketbook and ran across the street.\nIn crossing Morehead Street, Guthrie passed in front of a westbound motorist, William F. Ammons, who had observed the boys \u201csnatching a purse from a girl who was lying prostrate.\u201d Ammons switched the ignition off, jumped from his car, pursued Guthrie and, after chasing him \u201cfor approximately four to six blocks over a rather circuitous route,\u201d came upon him and detained him until the police arrived.\nAmmons did not identify defendant Higgins as a participant in the robbery and Mrs. Griffith\u2019s identification of Higgins was somewhat equivocal.\nAs to Higgins, the verdict was \u201cnot guilty.\u201d As to Guthrie, the jury returned a verdict of \u201cGuilty of Common Law Robbery\u201d; and judgment, imposing a prison sentence was pronounced. Guthrie excepted and appealed.\nAttorney General Bruton and Staff Attorney Brown for the State.\nE. Glenn Scott, Jr., for defendant appellant."
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  "file_name": "0699-01",
  "first_page_order": 731,
  "last_page_order": 732
}