State v. Lloyd

BROCK, Chief Judge.

In defendant’s first assignment of error he objects to the patrolman’s testimony in which the patrolman explained the purpose for the center line on the highway. Defendant argues that the testimony amounts to a conclusion of law by a non-expert as to the effect and reason for the center line. It is argued the error is prejudicial in that it places before the jury evidence of guilt of an offense for which defendant had not been charged. We disagree.

At the point in the patrolman’s testimony where this evidence occurred, he was testifying as to why he, as a trained law…