State v. Ballard

Citations

• 122 N.C. 1024

Syllabus

<p>Bastardy Proceedings — Criminal Action — Appeal— Practice.</p> <p>1. Neither the State nor the prosecutrix is entitled to appeal in a criminal action from a verdict or finding of “not guilty.”</p> <p>2. The General Assembly having, by Sections 35 and 38 of The Code, superadded to the civil penalties attaching to bastardy the legal consequences of a crime, the proceeding is criminal in its nature.</p> <p>(Clark, J., dissents arguendo, in which Montgomery, J., concurs.)</p>