State v. Wallace

CAMPBELL, Judge.

The defendant contends that it was error to allow the Solicitor to question the defendant about committing specific criminal acts raising the inference he had been indicted or charged but not convicted. The Supreme Court of North Carolina has held on numerous occasions that the witness may, for the purpose of impeachment, be examined as to whether he has committed named criminal offenses and acts of degrading conduct which are not the subject of the case being tried and for which he had not been convicted. State v. Foster, 284 N.C. 259, 200 S.E. 2d 782 (1973) and cases there…