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STATE v. WOOTEN

No. 818SC798.

286 S.E.2d 635 (1982)

STATE of North Carolina v. Dennis WOOTEN.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Dennis P. Myers, Raleigh, for the State.

Duke & Brown by J. Thomas Brown, Jr., Goldsboro, for defendant-appellant.

HEDRICK, Judge.

Defendant first assigns error to the court's pretrial comments concerning the charges against him. The record shows that the trial court erroneously stated to the jury pool that the defendant was charged with the three drug counts because of events occurring on 25 September 1980. After members of the jury were selected and impaneled, the court corrected its error by the following statement:

I inadvertently used the wrong date when I was giving...

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