STATE v. SMITH

No. 649.

87 S.E.2d 593 (1955)

242 N.C. 297

STATE v. Ernest (Layback) SMITH.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Vaden, Greensboro, for defendant, appellant.

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


HIGGINS, Justice.

The State's witness, Charles H. Smith, was a regular employee of the United States Treasury Department, and on the occasions about which he testified he was acting as undercover man in cooperation with and under the direction of the chief enforcement officer of the Guilford County ABC Board. On December 21, 1953, about nine o'clock a. m., the witness, accompanied by a friend, (not identified) went to the home of the defendant in Greensboro. "We knocked...

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