State v. Hill

ERWIN, Judge.

Defendant brings forth numerous assignments of error. For clarity’s sake, we will address them in order of convenience.

Motion for Recusation

Defendant contends that the trial court erred in not requesting another judge to consider his motion for recusation. We agree.

The record reveals that immediately after defendant had finished testifying at the criminal trial of another officer of the Lumberton Housing Authority {State v. Lamb, COA7916SC571, appealed to this Court and opinion filed December 1979), Judge Gavin, based on defendant’s testimony, stated that defendant had implicated…