STATE v. ARMSTRONG

No. 508.

62 S.E.2d 50 (1950)

232 N.C. 727

STATE v. ARMSTRONG.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 29, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., and T. W. Bruton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Ernest R. Warren, and O. A. Warren, Gastonia, for defendant.


STACY, Chief Justice.

The denial of any impeachment of the State's only eye-witness to the fatal assault necessitates another hearing. It is always open to a defendant to challenge the credibility of the witnesses offered by the prosecution who testify against him. State v. Beal, 199 N.C. 278, 154 S.E. 604.

What could be more effective for the purpose than to impeach the mentality or the intellectual grasp of the witness? If his interest, bias, indelicate...

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