STATE v. WINFREY

No. 23.

258 S.E.2d 346 (1979)

298 N.C. 260

STATE of North Carolina v. Mathias Bolling WINFREY, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 3, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Donald W. Stephens, Asst. Atty. Gen., Associate Justice, Thomas J. Ziko, Associate Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Van Camp, Gill & Crumpler, P. A. by James R. Van Camp, Southern Pines, for defendant-appellant.


BRANCH, Chief Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether the trial judge erred in excluding testimony of the victim's former wife that he was a dangerous man and that she had told defendant of the victim's reputation prior to the time he was killed. Defendant contends that the excluded testimony was admissible (1) to show that deceased was the aggressor; (2) to show that defendant's fear of deceased was reasonable; (3) to corroborate defendant...

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