State v. Kimrey

Tbe defendant assigns as error the way and manner in which, the trial judge interrogated his witnesses. He contends that the judge extended and elaborated on the solicitor’s cross-examination of the witnesses in a manner calculated to discredit and impeach them and cast doubt upon their testimony before the jury.

The rule is firmly fixed with us that “no judge at any time during the trial of a cause is permitted to cast doubt upon the testimony of a witness or to impeach his credibility.” S. v. Simpson, 233 N.C. 438, 441, 64 S.E. 2d 568; G.S. 1-180, as rewritten, Chapter 107, Session Laws of…