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STATE v. CAREY

No. 82.

218 S.E.2d 387 (1975)

288 N.C. 254

STATE of North Carolina v. Albert Lewis CAREY, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 7, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. John R. B. Matthis, Raleigh, for the State.

John H. Hasty, Charlotte, for defendant appellant.

COPELAND, Justice:

Defendant first assigns error to the action of the trial court in ruling that the State's witness, B. J. Sloan, was an expert in the field of firearms identification, and in permitting the witness to testify that based on his examination of the four lead pellets removed from the body of James D. Sloop, Sr., he concluded that they were No. 6 buckshot. Defendant argues that since the witness was tendered as an expert in the field of "firearms identification...

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