Maurice Victor Barnhill

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American politician

Maurice Victor Barnhill (1887–1963 ) was an associate justice (1937–1954) and chief justice (1954–1956) of the North Carolina Supreme Court .

Barnhill was born in Halifax County, North Carolina on December 5, 1887, and attended the University of North Carolina Law School . He was a prosecutor in Nash County, North Carolina and was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives , serving in 1921. He was a Nash County judge and a state superior court judge before Governor Clyde R. Hoey appointed him to the state Supreme Court on July 1, 1937.

As a superior court judge, Barnhill presided over the murder trial that followed the Loray Mill Strike .

He was subsequently elected to the Supreme Court in 1938 and re-elected in 1946. Barnhill was appointed Chief Justice by Governor William B. Umstead on February 1, 1954, and he was elected to the post on November 2, 1954.

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1. ↑ Index to the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography Archived September 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

2. ↑ State of North Carolina vs. Fred Erwin Beal, et al. Transcript: (September 30, 1929 – October 16, 1929) Finding Aid

3. ↑ "Guilt at Gastonia" . _Time _. October 28, 1929. (in which he is mistakenly referred to as Victor M. Barnhill)

4. ↑ "Textile Trial" . Time. August 12, 1929. in which he is mistakenly referred to as Morris Victor Barnhill)

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