State v. Wright

VAUGHN, Judge.

Defendant’s first assignment of error challenges questions directed by the trial judge to various witnesses and asserts that these questions, by indicating to the jury that the trial judge held the opinion that defendant was guilty, were prejudicial to defendant. The standard to be followed in the examination of witnesses by a trial judge was stated in State v. Colson, 274 N.C. 295, 163 S.E. 2d 376, cert. den. 393 U.S. 1087. “If by their tenor, their frequency, or by the persistence of the trial judge [the questions] tend to convey to the jury in any manner at any stage of the…