State v. Connley

SHARP, Chief Justice.

The assignments of error which defendant brings forward challenge the admission of certain portions of the State’s evidence and the court’s instructions to the jury.

We first consider defendant’s contention that the trial judge committed prejudicial error by permitting State’s witness Victor Holdren, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to testify about statements which defendant made to him in the emergency room at Duke Medical Center between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. on 15 November 1976. These statements, the substance of which Holdren related to the jury,…