State v. . Colson

Assignments of error based upon exceptions to the over-' ruling by the court of defendant’s objections to questions addressed to him by the solicitor, upon his cross-examination as a witness in his own behalf, cannot be sustained.

These questions were manifestly for tbe purpose of impeaching defendant as a witness; they were competent for that purpose. The principle upon which a new trial was ordered by this Court in S. v. Alston, 94 N. C., 930, cited by defendant in support of these assignments of error, is not applicable upon this record. It is held in that case that “as a general rule it is…