STATE v. LINDLEY

No. 110.

210 S.E.2d 207 (1974)

286 N.C. 255

STATE of North Carolina v. Barry Dean LINDLEY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 11, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Carson, Jr., Atty. Gen., H. A. Cole, Jr., and Thomas B. Wood, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State of North Carolina.

Phil S. Edwards, Dark & Edwards, Siler City, for defendant-appellant.


HUSKINS, Justice:

Defendant contends the court erred in allowing Officer R. L. Thompson, a lay witness, to testify that after observing defendant at the time of his arrest and on the way to jail he formed an opinion satisfactory to himself that defendant was under the influence of some drug. Admission of such testimony over objection constitutes defendant's first assignment of error.

Opinion evidence is generally inadmissible "whenever the witness can relate...

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