Article 3, Section 1

Document 2

North Carolina Constitution of 1776, ART. 23

That the Governor, and other officers, offending against the State, by violating any part of this Constitution, maladministration, or corruption, may be prosecuted, on the impeachment of the General Assembly, or presentment of the Grand Jury of any court of supreme jurisdiction in this State.

The Founders' Constitution
Volume 2, Article 3, Section 1, Document 2
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_2_5s2.html
The University of Chicago Press

Thorpe, Francis Newton, ed. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America. 7 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909.