State v. Woody

LAKE, Justice.

Relying upon State v. Pike, 273 N.C. 102, 159 S.E. 2d 334, the defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial judge to conduct a voir dire examination to determine the legality of the defendant’s arrest when the defendant objected to the arresting officer’s testifying as to what he found upon the defendant’s person, no reason for such objection having been stated. This assignment of error is without merit.

The question to which the objection was made was, “What did you find on his person?” Prior to this question, the officer had testified, without objection, that the clerk…