STATE v. CAMP

No. 7427SC384.

205 S.E.2d 800 (1974)

22 N.C. App. 109

STATE of North Carolina v. Samuel Lee CAMP.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Certiorari Allowed August 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan, by Deputy Atty. Gen. Jean A. Benoy, Raleigh, for the State.

Atkins & Layton, by Nicholas Street, Gastonia, for defendant appellant.


Certiorari Allowed by Supreme Court August 30, 1974.

BALEY, Judge.

The issue presented by this case is: May the courts take judicial notice of the principles of heredity upon which blood tests for paternity are based? Our answer is yes. The trial court in this case should have taken judicial notice that two parents of blood group O cannot have a child of blood group A, and the jury should have been so instructed.

"There are many facts of which the...

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