State v. . Jones
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Bay, J., at December Term, 1920, of Guileokd. Indictment for assault with intént to commit rape on one Lillian Marshall. The jury rendered a verdict of guilty of an assault on a ■female. Judgment on the verdict, and defendant excepted and appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Hoice,. J.
It is chiefly urged for error that while the defendant was on the stand as a witness in his own behalf the court, in endeavoring to bring the. witness to testify on matters relevant to the issue, made comment, “Up to now the defendant’s personal testimony was like a Georgia lake, a mile wide and an inch deep.” This Court has always been very careful to enforce the provision of the statute which prohibits .a judge from expression of opinion in the trial of causes before the jury, C. S., 564, extending the inhibition to such expression in the hearing of the jury at any time during the…
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