State v. Hensley

HEDRICK, Chief Judge.

Defendant first contends that the trial court erred in allowing the State to impeach him on cross-examination with evidence of convictions more than ten years old. The State impeached defendant with evidence of two breaking and entering convictions and two larceny convictions that were thirteen years old at the time of his trial. Defendant served a sentence of “[a]bout seventeen months” for the thirteen-year-old convictions. G.S. 8C-1, Rule 609, provides in part:(a) General rule. — For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he had been…