Abstract:
North Carolina is one of the few states in the country to have its own statewide investigative department, the State Bureau of Investigation (S.B.I.). The Bureau was authorized by an act of the 1937 General Assembly, but it was not until March 1938 that funds became available to finance its operations. Governor Clyde Hoey appointed Frederick C. Handy the Bureau's director. Handy was an ex-FBI man who had charge of the FBI office covering North and South Carolina for seven years.