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232 N.C. 330

State v. Werst

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 9, 1950

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1950-06-09

Relies on Wyatt v. Queen City Coach Co. · Eaves Ex Rel. Eaves v. Coxe · State v. Cancelmo

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Decided 1950-06-09

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1975

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EkyiN, J.

¶1The testimony of the prosecution was sufficient to take the ease to the jury and to support the verdict for the State. S. v. Cancelmo, 86 Or. 379, 168 P. 721. Consequently the court rightly refused to dismiss the action upon a compulsory nonsuit under G.S. 15-173. Whatever error the court below may have committed in temporarily excluding the evidence of the defendant’s witness, Yelma Smoot, as to the circumstances confronting the accused at the "time in controversy was rendered harmless when the same evidence was subsequently given by the same witness without objection on her further examination. Eaves v. Coxe, 203 N.C. 173, 165 S.E. 345. When it is read as a whole, the charge is free from legal error. Wyatt v. Coach Co., 229 N.C. 340, 49 S.E. 2d 650.

¶2For tbe reasons given, the trial and sentence are sustained.

¶3No error.

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