State v. Wooten

BRITT, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the admission of testimony by the nurse and treating physician, particularly their testimony with respect to the matchbox and its contents. She contends that the evidence was inadmissible (1) by virtue of G.S. 8-53 and (2) for the reason that it resulted from an illegal search and seizure.

We consider first the evidence provided by the treating phyisican in the light of G.S. 8-53 which provides:

“No person, duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, shall be required to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending a patient in a…