State v. Brown

CARLTON, Justice.

Defendant presents four arguments. We find no error and affirm.

Defendant first asserts that the trial court improperly admitted the testimony of three doctors who opined that the decedent’s injury was probably not caused by a fall down a flight of stairs. Such testimony, defendant argues, invaded the province of the jury and relieved the State of its burden of proof.

We disagree. The controlling case is State v. Wilkerson, 295 N.C. 559, 247 S.E. 2d 905 (1978). There, Justice Exum, speaking for the Court, delineated the circumstances under which expert medical testimony is…