State v. Wells

VAUGHN, Judge.

Defendant assigns error to the court’s admission, over his repeated objections, of Trooper Parks’ opinion as to where the collision between the two cars occurred. This assignment of error is sustained.

Our State Supreme Court has held in several cases that while it is competent for an investigating officer to testify as to the condition and position of the vehicles and other physical facts observed by him at the scene of an accident, his testimony as to his conclusions from those facts is incompetent. See Farrow v. Baugham, 266 N.C. 739, 147 S.E. 2d 167 (1966); McGinnis v.…