STATE v. HELMS

No. 9A87.

367 S.E.2d 644 (1988)

STATE of North Carolina v. Robin HELMS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 5, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Elizabeth G. McCrodden, Associate Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender by Staples Hughes, Asst. Appellate Defender, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.


EXUM, Chief Justice.

In this case defendant was charged with committing sexual offenses upon two of her stepsons. She denied the charges, claiming that the boys' natural mother suborned their testimony. The sole question we address on appeal is whether the trial court committed reversible error when it precluded defendant from introducing evidence that shortly before she was accused of committing sexual offenses she, one of her stepsons, and her husband, the boys...

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