STATE v. SINGLETON

No. 7728SC1000.

244 S.E.2d 440 (1978)

STATE of North Carolina v. Lewis SINGLETON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Amos C. Dawson, III, Raleigh, for the State.

Peter L. Roda, Public Defender, Asheville, for the Twenty-Eighth Judicial District, for defendant-appellant.


MITCHELL, Judge.

The defendant assigns as error the trial court's failure to immediately instruct the jury, at the time evidence of his prior conviction was admitted into evidence, that such evidence could be considered solely as bearing upon his credibility and not as substantive evidence of his guilt or innocence of the offense charged. The defendant contends that failure to so instruct the jury until the time of its final instructions constituted prejudicial error...

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