STATE v. WILLIAMS

No. 551A87.

368 S.E.2d 624 (1988)

STATE of North Carolina v. Darrell WILLIAMS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by John R. Corne, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, by Mark D. Montgomery, Asst. Appellate Defender, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.


EXUM, Chief Justice.

The issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in allowing the state to impeach one of defendant's witnesses, David Small, by use of extrinsic evidence of prior inconsistent statements. We conclude admission of the impeachment testimony constitutes reversible error.

I

At trial, the nineteen-year-old prosecutix testified that on the evening of 28 December 1986 she went to the...

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