STATE v. WILKERSON

No. 84.

247 S.E.2d 905 (1978)

295 N.C. 559

STATE of North Carolina v. Kenneth D. WILKERSON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by Roy A. Giles, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the state.

William Wicker and Deno G. Economou, Asst. Public Defender, Fayetteville, for defendant.


EXUM, Justice.

The homicide victim in this tragic affair was Kessler Wilkerson, the two-year-old son of defendant and his wife, Nancy. The state's evidence tended to show, and the jury apparently believed, that the child's death was the result of physical abuse inflicted upon him by his father. On his appeal defendant contends the trial court erred in (1) admitting into evidence expert medical opinion having to do with the "battered child" syndrome; (2) permitting...

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