Moore v. Young

In Trust Co. v. Pollard, 256 N.C. 77, 123 S.E. 2d 104, an action for wrongful death, the plaintiffs alleged -that, in a criminal prosecution for the -murder of their intestate, the 'defendant was convicted of the -crime of manslaughter. This Court held the 'defendant’s motion to strike these ¡allegations should have been allowed because evidence in support ¡thereof would have been incompetent. Reference was made to our decisions in civil actions growing out of automobile collisions ¡in which it was held incompetent to -show the 'Operator (a party) of one of the vehicles had been convicted of…