State v. Perry

Without objection, Mrs. Womble testified that her assailant told her he had been released from prison on the day before the events related by her occurred. The defendant assigns as error the admission, over his objection, of testimony by the supervisor of the Wake Advancement Center, a unit of the prison system, that the defendant had been released from the Center on the day preceding those events. There was no error in this ruling.

The defendant offered no evidence. Nevertheless, his plea of not guilty put in issue every material element of the State’s charges against him. The identity of the…