State v. Stafford

346 S.E.2d 463 (1986)

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Michael Allen STAFFORD.

No. 598A85.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 12, 1986.

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Alfred N. Salley, Joan H. Byers and David Roy Blackwell, Asst. Attys. Gen., Raleigh, for State appellant.

Barnes, Braswell, Haithcock & Warren, P.A. by R. Gene Braswell and S. Reed Warren, Goldsboro, for defendant-appellee.

EXUM, Justice.

The Court of Appeals held in this rape case that it was reversible error to submit certain testimony concerning what a physician described as "rape trauma syndrome." Judge Webb, writing for the…