STATE v. KEEN

No. 59A83.

305 S.E.2d 535 (1983)

STATE of North Carolina v. Joseph Daniel KEEN, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Daniel F. McLawhorn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove by Roger W. Smith and Mark J. Prak, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.


BRANCH, Chief Justice.

By his sole assignment of error defendant contends the trial court committed prejudicial error in failing to strike certain testimony of Dr. J.D. Danoff. We find merit in this assignment and hold that defendant is entitled to a new trial.

Dr. Danoff, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at East Carolina University School of Medicine, who observed and treated Langley in the Pitt Memorial Hospital for approximately eight days, testified...

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