STATE v. WILHITE

No. 569A82.

303 S.E.2d 788 (1983)

STATE of North Carolina v. Bennie Carsell WILHITE, John Edgar Rankin and Ralph Wayne Rankin.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by John R.B. Matthis, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., John F. Maddrey, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Michael Rivers Morgan, Associate Atty., Raleigh, for the state.

Pinkney J. Moses, Greensboro, for defendant-appellee John Rankin.

Joel G. Bowden, Greensboro, for defendant-appellee Ralph Wayne Rankin.


EXUM, Justice.

The questions presented are whether the trial court committed reversible error in not permitting defendants Rankin in the kidnapping cases (1) to cross-examine the prosecuting witness about specific acts of misconduct and (2) to prove these acts by the testimony of other witnesses. A majority of the Court of Appeals concluded that error was committed. We disagree. As to the first question, the answers the witness might have given to the questions were...

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