State v. Snead

NEWBY, Justice.

This case is about whether the State properly authenticated a surveillance video showing defendant stealing shirts from a Belk Department Store (Belk) and whether a witness’s lay opinion testimony based on that video was admissible. By presenting evidence that the video surveillance system was reliable and that the video presented at trial had not been altered, the State properly authenticated the video. Moreover, because defendant failed to make a timely objection to the witness’s testimony, he failed to preserve that issue for appellate review. Accordingly, we reverse the…