STATE v. WARD

No. 365PA09.

694 S.E.2d 738 (2010)

STATE of North Carolina v. Jimmy Waylon WARD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Amy Kunstling Irene, Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellant.

Paul F. Herzog, Fayetteville, for defendant-appellee.

Anne Bleyman, Chapel Hill, and Rudolf Widenhouse & Fialko, by M. Gordon Widenhouse, Jr., Counsel for North Carolina Advocates for Justice, amicus curiae.


BRADY, Justice.

In the case sub judice the State presented expert witness testimony at trial to the effect that pills found on Defendant Jimmy Waylon Ward's person, in his vehicle, and at his residence were pharmaceuticals classified as controlled substances under the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act. N.C.G.S. ch. 90, art. 5 (2009). The issue for our review is whether the trial court abused its discretion by permitting the State's expert witness to...

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