State v. . Rhinehart

It would seem that by paramounting the character and disinterestedness of the State’s witnesses, and at the same time calling attention to the unreasonableness of the defendant’s testimony, its want of adminiculation, and the proneness of parties and interested witnesses to swear falsely, the trial court inadvertently conveyed to the jury an expression of opinion prohibited by C. S., 564. S. v. Hart, 186 N. C., 582, 120 S. E., 345. The error is just one of those casualties which, now and then, befalls the most circumspect in the trial of causes on the circuit. S. v. Griggs, 197 N. C., 352,…