M.V. Barnhill
Maurice Victor Barnhill (1887 – 1963[1]) was an associate justice (1937-54) and chief justice (1954-56) 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.[2] [3] [4]
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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| Preceded by William A. Devin |
Chief Justice of North Carolina Supreme Court 1954 - 1956 |
Succeeded by J. Wallace Winborne |
[edit] References
- ^ Index to the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
- ^ State of North Carolina vs. Fred Erwin Beal, et al. Transcript: (September 30, 1929 – October 16, 1929) Finding Aid
- ^ Time magazine: "Guilt at Gastonia" (in which he is mistakenly referred to as Victor M. Barnhill)
- ^ Time magazine: "Textile Trial" (in which he is mistakenly referred to as Morris Victor Barnhill)
