NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 262

HOUSE BILL 178

 

 

AN ACT ABOLISHING TRIALS BY JURY IN THE RECORDER'S COURT OF GRANVILLE COUNTY AND PROVIDING FOR TRANSFERS TO THE SUPERIOR COURT UPON DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. In all criminal cases in the Recorder's Court of Granville County, upon demand for a jury trial by any defendant, the recorder of said court shall make an order transferring the case for all purposes to the Superior Court of Granville County, and the defendant or defendants as to whom said case is transferred shall execute a new bond or bonds in such amount to be fixed by the recorder for the appearance of such defendant or defendants at the next term of the Superior Court of said county. If the defendant or defendants fail immediately to give a bond for his or their appearance at the next term of the Superior Court in the amount fixed by the recorder, then said recorder shall forthwith commit the defendant or defendants failing to give said bond to jail until said next term of the Superior Court. In the event that such demand shall be made during a term of the Superior Court for the trial of criminal actions and while the solicitor of the district is still in attendance upon said term, then said action shall be transferred to and tried at said term unless continued by the Judge of the Superior Court for good cause shown.

Sec. 2. If a jury trial is demanded by either plaintiff or defendant in a civil action pending in the Recorder's Court of Granville County, the recorder of said court shall immediately make an order transferring said case to the Civil Issue Docket of the Superior Court of Granville County.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of April, 1963.