STATE v. TATE

No. 97.

239 S.E.2d 821 (1978)

STATE of North Carolina v. John Calvin TATE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 24, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by Jane Rankin Thompson, Associate Atty., Raleigh, for the State of North Carolina.

Michael S. Scofield, Public Defender, and Grant Smithson, Asst. Public Defender, Charlotte, for defendant appellant.


HUSKINS, Justice:

Defendant's first two assignments of error concern evidentiary rulings of the trial court relating to a communication between defendant and the attorney who represented him in connection with another criminal charge. These assignments require further examination of the evidence adduced at trial.

State's witness Margaret Ann Robinson testified that during the course of his assault on her defendant stated: "I got a letter from my lawyer saying...

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