State v. Rutherford

BRASWELL, Judge.

While hitchhiking, Harold Wayne Zortman, a Fort Bragg soldier, was robbed at gunpoint. The defendants were tried and convicted by a jury of Robbery with a Firearm. An assignment of error common to both defendants’ briefs concerns whether the trial court abused its discretion by failing to declare a mistrial on the grounds that the jury was improperly influenced by contact with a State’s witness. Defendant Rutherford additionally assigns as error the entry of his conviction judgment when crucial evidence admitted against him constituted hearsay. Defendant Faust also contends…