NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 567

SENATE BILL 242

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 7-127 RELATING TO THE TRIAL OF CRIMINAL CASES BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN HARNETT COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 7-127, as the same appears in Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided that in Harnett County a justice of the peace shall only have the authority and jurisdiction to try criminal cases arising in the township for which he was elected or appointed, except as herein provided. The defendant shall be tried before the justice of the peace of the township in which the crime was committed, and if there is no such justice of the peace in said township, then the defendant shall be tried before a justice of the peace of an adjoining township."

Sec. 2. This Act shall be applicable only to Harnett County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1959.