State v. Daye

VAUGHN, Judge.

Defendant’s first assignment of error is that the court erred in failing to grant his motion for mistrial due to the prejudicial responses of a State’s witness and improper ques*436tioning by the solicitor. “As a general rule, a motion for a mistrial is addressed to the discretion of the trial judge, and the ruling thereon is not reviewable on appeal in the absence of a showing of an abuse of discretion.” State v. Williams, 7 N.C. App. 51, 171 S.E. 2d 39. The record before us discloses no abuse of discretion. It suffices to say that, in almost every instance, the able trial judge…