State v. Rhyne

MITCHELL, Judge.

The defendant first assigns as error the admission into evidence of a knife marked and identified as State’s Exhibit 1. In support of this assignment, the defendant contends that the State’s evidence failed to associate the knife with a crime charged. This assignment is without merit.

Generally, weapons may be admitted into evidence when testimony or other evidence tends to show that they were used in the commission of a crime. State v. Miller, 288 N.C. 582, 220 S.E. 2d 326 (1975); State v. Simmons, 286 N.C. 681, 213 S.E. 2d 280 (1975); State v. Patterson, 284 N.C. 190, 200…