State v. . Lancaster

The first question involved: Is it reversible error for the court below to permit, over the objection of the defendant, expert testimony of witnesses for the State, as to an audit of public records made by them and their conclusions from such investigation of the records? We do not think it error.

Frank Gorham, a witness for the State, it is admitted is an accounting expert. He was a competent witness to testify. S. v. Brewer, ante, 187; S. v. Rhodes, ante, 101.

Defendant was sheriff of Edgecombe County, Gorham was employed by the commissioners of said county to make an audit of the books of…