State v. Galloway

284 S.E.2d 509 (1981)

STATE of North Carolina

v.

James Luther GALLOWAY.

No. 72.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 1, 1981.

Atty. Gen., Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen., Thomas H. Davis, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

L. G. Gordon, Jr., Winston-Salem, for defendant.

CARLTON, Justice.

I

Only a brief summary of the evidence is necessary here for an understanding of the case giving rise to this appeal.

The prosecuting witness, Enola Kay Conrad, is a deaf mute and testified at trial through an interpreter. She told the jury that late on the night of 9 June 1980, she and two girlfriends, who were…