Piper v. Ashburn

Assignment of error No. 1 based upon exception to the ruling of the trial court in excluding the affirmative answer given by Dr. Kelly to the question asked her about statement she made in her complaint that Dr. Piper entered the intersection when the light was red against him is well taken. This answer by her was competent for impeachment. Speaking of the rule as to prior inconsistent statements for impeachment purposes, Stansbury in his treatise on North Carolina Evidence, Section 46, p. 67, has this to say: “A witness may be impeached by proof that on other occasions he has made statements…