State v. Locklear

MOORE, Justice.

Defendant first contends that the testimony of Bobby Ray Jackson was hearsay and prejudicial. Jackson, a locksmith, testified that he made a key for a 1978 yellow station wagon located in a parking lot adjacent to the Hide-A-Way Lounge in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He further testified that he then gave the key to a girl behind the counter at the Hide-A-Way Lounge. The girl paid him and signed an authorization for the making of the key in the name of Mike Peplinski. “ ‘Evidence, oral or written, is called “hearsay” when its probative force depends in whole or in part upon…