are necessary to invoke the jurisdiction of the court over the subject matter. Verification requires a petitioner to attest “that the contents of the pleading verified are true to the knowledge of the person making the verification[.]” N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1A-1, Rule 11(b) (2003). Verification is defined as “[a] notarial act in which a notary certifies that a signer, whose identity is personally known to the notary or proven on the basis of satisfactory evidence, has, in the notary’s presence, voluntarily signed a document and taken an oath or affirmation concerning the document.” N.C. Gen. Stat. § 10A-3(9) (2003) (emphasis added). Our Supreme Court has held that notarization is insufficient to constitute verification. See Martin v. Martin, 130 N.C. 27, 28, 40 S.E. 822, 822 (1902) (<HOLDING>). Here, the Petition was notarized, the
holding that a batson challenge is not timely if the jury has been sworn and the venire dismissed and observing that sjeveral jurisdictions have closely analyzed batsons language and concluded that the us supreme court envisioned that a batson challenge must be made before the jury is sworn while citing numerous state decisions barring batson objections after the jury is sworn and the venire is dismissed holding that in the absence of a prior indictment probable cause for arrest is determined by the facts in the sworn complaint holding jeopardy attaches when jury is empanelled and sworn holding that in a suit on a sworn account the petition with an attached sworn account and verified affidavit of the sworn account was a liquidated claim proved by written instruments holding that the phrase  sworn and subscribed to  is defective as a verification