State v. Huntley

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The defendant, who did not take the stand during the trial, cites as error the court’s refusal to admit the testimony of his witness, Samuel Buford, concerning a conversation that he purportedly heard the evening of the crime between the defendant and an unidentified third party. Buford’s proffered testimony, in substance, was that: While in a Charlotte liquor house with the defendant before 9 o’clock, he saw a drunken man, who asked if anybody had a driver’s license, and upon defendant saying that he did, he saw the drunk give him a car key and ten dollars, and heard him tell…