STATE v. GAVIN

No. 364.

59 S.E.2d 823 (1950)

232 N.C. 323

STATE v. GAVIN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., and Hughes J. Rhodes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

E. Walker Stevens and Rivers D. Johnson, Warsaw, for defendant.


ERVIN, Justice.

The testimony of the State's witness to the effect that two years before the trial she read newspaper articles stating that the accused had performed abortions on two other women was highly prejudicial hearsay, and ought to have been excluded. Randle v. Grady, 228 N.C. 159, 45 S.E.2d 35; Teague v. Wilson, 220 N.C. 241, 17 S.E.2d 9; Greene v. Carroll, 205 N.C. 459, 171 S.E. 627; Young v. Stewart, 191 N.C. 297, 131 S.E. 735.

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