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STATE v. STALLINGS

No. 218.

66 S.E.2d 822 (1951)

234 N.C. 265

STATE v. STALLINGS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 10, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen. and Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Robert B. Broughton, Member of Staff, Raleigh, for the State.

Shepard & Wood, Smithfield, for defendant, appellant.

DEVIN, Chief Justice.

The power of a court, in proper case, to suspend judgment on conviction of a criminal offense for a reasonable length of time, conditioned upon continued obedience to the law, is well recognized in this jurisdiction, and frequently exercised in order to carry out the more humane concept of the purpose of punishment for crime. State v. Tripp, 168 N.C. 150, 83 S.E. 630; State v. Wilson, 216 N.C. 130, 4 S.E.2d 440; State v. Gibson,

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