STATE v. DAVIS

No. 1.

129 S.E.2d 894 (1963)

259 N.C. 138

STATE of North Carolina v. Jewel DAVIS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 20, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. R. Francis, Waynesville, M. Buchanan III, Sylva, and T. D. Bryson, Jr., Bryson City, for defendant appellant.

Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton and Asst. Atty. Gen. Charles D. Barham, Jr., for the State.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant offered evidence of deceased's reputation for violence. Additionally he sought to elicit by cross-examination of the State's witnesses the fact that deceased had committed specific violent assaults on persons other than defendant. The evidence was, on objection by the State, excluded. Defendant assigns as error the court's refusal to permit him to show that deceased had at different times assaulted specifically named persons. The ruling was correct...

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