STATE v. PURDIE

No. 8813SC483.

377 S.E.2d 789 (1989)

STATE of North Carolina v. James David PURDIE.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen., Lacy Thornburg by Asst. Atty. Gen., Linda Anne Morris, Raleigh, for the State.

James R. Melvin, Elizabethtown, for defendant.


BECTON, Judge.

Defendant James David Purdie was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to ten years imprisonment for his role in a head-on collision in which the driver of the other car was killed. Purdie appeals, contending that the trial judge erred by: 1) allowing an accident reconstruction expert to testify; 2) permitting the prosecutor to ask a witness a leading question on direct examination; 3) refusing to allow Purdie's former attorney to testify...

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