State v. Smith
Decision Date | 02 January 1929 |
Docket Number | 581. |
Citation | 146 S.E. 73,196 N.C. 438 |
Parties | STATE v. SMITH. |
Court | North Carolina Supreme Court |
Appeal from Superior Court, Swain County; Clayton Moore, Special Judge.
Sibbald Smith was convicted of slander. Sentence was suspended, and from a subsequent judgment, imposing sentence, defendant appeals. Error.
Judgment imposing sentence, originally suspended on condition of defendant's good behavior, where entered without opportunity for hearing and without evidence or finding of violation of conditions originally imposed, held unauthorized.
At the March term, 1927, of the superior court of Swain county, the defendant was convicted of slander of an innocent and virtuous woman, and the following judgment entered:
At the August term, 1928, the judge issued a capias for defendant and entered the following judgment:
Moody & Moody, of Murphy, and W. G. Hall and McKinley Edwards, both of Bryson City, for appellant.
Dennis G. Brummitt, Atty. Gen., and Frank Nash, Asst. Atty. Gen for the State.
It does not appear from the record that the defendant was offered an opportunity in open court to be heard upon the question as to whether he had violated the conditions upon which the original judgment was suspended. Neither is there evidence or finding of fact to the effect that any of said conditions had been violated.
The exception of the defendant to the judgment appealed from is sustained. State v. Hardin, 183 N.C. 815, 112 S.E 593; State v....
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