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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-270 (2026)

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General jurisdiction for the trial of criminal actions is vested in the superior court and the district court divisions of the General Court of Justice. (1965, c. 310, s. 1.)

 

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Cited in 5 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1967–2024 · leading case: State v. Jones, 805 S.E.2d 701 (N.C. Ct. App. 2017).
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State v. Jones, 805 S.E.2d 701 (N.C. Ct. App. 2017). · cites it 4× “North Carolina General Statute § 7A-270 (2015) provides that “[g]eneral jurisdiction for the trial of criminal actions is vested in the superior court and the district court divisions of the General Court of Justice.”
Seguro-Suarez by & Through Connette v. Key Risk Ins. Co., 819 S.E.2d 741 (N.C. Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 2× “" N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-270 (2017). By contrast, "the North Carolina *210 Industrial Commission is not a court of general jurisdiction; the Commission is a quasi-judicial administrative board created by the legislature to administer the Workers' Compensation Act and has no…”
United States v. Alston, 717 F. Supp. 378 (M.D.N.C. 1989). · cites it 2× “N.C.Gen.Stat. §§ 7A-270 to 7A-272 (1986).”
State v. Wall, 157 S.E.2d 363 (N.C. 1967). “Under G.S. 7A-270 and G.S. 7A-271, the district court has original jurisdiction for the trial of all criminal actions below the grade *681 of felony, that is, of all prosecutions for misdemeanors; and the district court has exclusive original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors…”
State v. Singleton (N.C. 2024). · cites it 9× “” N.C.G.S. § 7A-270 (2023). Defendant’s first argument concerns the mandate in subsection 15A-924(a)(5) that a statutorily sufficient criminal pleading contain “[a] plain and concise factual statement in each count which, without allegations of an evidentiary nature, asserts…”
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