State v. . Gardner

This case was before us on a former appeal in which a new trial was granted. S. v. Gardner, 226 N. C., 310, 37 S. E. (2d), 913.

The first assignment of error is based on an exception to the admission of the testimony, over objection, of the Acting Coroner of Buncombe County, Dr. Curtis Crump, who, in response to a question about a telephone call, testified: “I received that telephone call shortly after 3 :30 p.m., and Dr. Gardner, or a man purporting to be Dr. Gardner, stated that he had called his lawyer and his lawyer had advised him to call the Coroner concerning a deceased individual which…