STATE v. DAVIS

No. 66.

256 S.E.2d 184 (1979)

297 N.C. 566

STATE of North Carolina v. Jack Harvey DAVIS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 12, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by Jane Rankin Thompson, Associate Atty., Raleigh, for the state.

Russell J. Hollers, Troy, for defendant-appellant.


EXUM, Justice.

Defendant's appeal presents four principal questions. They are whether: (1) the trial court properly admitted identification testimony by the deceased's wife; (2) certain photographs should have been excluded because of their inflammatory nature; (3) certain cigarette butts found in the victim's home were properly admitted; and (4) the trial court gave insufficient weight to defendant's contentions in its instructions to the jury. We find no prejudicial...

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