State v. Jones
Citations
- 819 S.E.2d 340
- 371 N.C. 548
Syllabus
Appeal from conviction for driving a motor vehicle while having an open container of alcohol in the passenger compartment whether the citation identifying the offense was a sufficient criminal pleading, standing alone, to give the superior court jurisdiction over the offense.
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- “This seeming inconsistency between and among the statutory enactments at issue in the present case is readily resolved by the Official Commentary to Article 49 of the North Carolina General Statutes.”
- “This seeming inconsistency between and among the statutory enactments at issue in the present case is readily resolved by the Official Commentary to Article 49 of the North Carolina General Statutes.”
- \The commentary to a statutory provision can be helpful in some cases in discerning legislative intent.\ (quoting Parsons v. Jefferson-Pilot Corp. , 333 N.C. 420 , 425, 426 S.E.2d 685 , 689 (1993) ); State v. Williams , 315 N.C. 310 , 327, 338 S.E.2d 75 , 85 (1986
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Judges: Morgan
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