State v. Dunn

The defendant’s first assignment of error is to the ruling of the court below in allowing the introduction in evidence of the recorded chattel mortgage which is referred to as State’s Exhibit No. 1. The defendant contends that such instrument is not admissible until it has been properly identified by the register of deeds in the manner set forth in G.S. 8-18. This statute is not applicable when the original instrument is offered in evidence with the certificate of the register of deeds appearing thereon with respect to the time filed for registration and the book and page where it has been…