STATE v. WARD

No. 775SC439.

239 S.E.2d 291 (1977)

34 N.C. App. 598

STATE of North Carolina v. Jimmy Wilson WARD.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 7, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Gen. Amos Dawson, Raleigh, for the State.

E. Hilton Newman, Wilmington, for defendant.


BROCK, Chief Judge.

Defendant's assignment of error to the admission into evidence of three photographs of deceased on the ground that they only tend to inflame the jury is without merit. Deceased was shot numerous times in the chest, head, and back. The photographs were clearly competent to illustrate the testimony of the State's witness. "The fact that a photograph depicts a horrible, gruesome, and revolting scene, indicating...

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