NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 704

HOUSE BILL 1158

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 7A-27 TO PROVIDE THAT APPEALS IN CRIMINAL CASES AFTER PLEAS OF GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE SHALL BE ONLY BY WRIT OF CERTIORARI.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-27(a) and (b) are rewritten to read as follows:

"(a)       From a judgment of a superior court which includes a sentence of death or imprisonment for life, unless the judgment was based on a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, appeal lies of right directly to the Supreme Court.

(b)        From any final judgment of a superior court, other than one described in subsection (a) of this section, or one based on a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or one entered in a post-conviction hearing under Article 22 of Chapter 15, including any final judgment entered upon review of a decision of an administrative agency, appeal lies of right to the Court of Appeals."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.