State v. Franks

Defendant assigns as error the admission in evidence, over his objection, of seven volumes containing a loose-leaf record of sales of debentures of Franks’ Finance Company to certain persons, which were marked State’s Exhibits 1 through 7, both inclusive. Defendant contends these volumes were improperly admitted in evidence, for the reason the State did not properly identify and authenticate them.

The first witness for the State was E. B. Rannells, Jr., who lives in Sanford, North Carolina, and was employed by Franks’ Finance Company from the middle of June 1955 through September 1959. He…