STATE v. COLSON

No. 68SC61.

161 S.E.2d 637 (1968)

1 N.C. App. 339

STATE of North Carolina v. Willard Horace COLSON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 12, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., by Bernard A. Harrell, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Russell E. Twiford, O. C. Abbott, and John S. Kisiday, Elizabeth City, for defendant appellant.


PARKER, Judge.

Defendant's first assignment of error relates to the admission into evidence of clothing worn by defendant on the night of his wife's death. Defendant contends that these articles of clothing were removed from his person by the police officers without a search warrant, at a time when he was highly intoxicated, and prior to his arrest. For these reasons, defendant contends the articles could not legally be admitted into evidence or exhibited to the jury...

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