State v. Rogers

*600BRITT, Justice.

Defendant contends that the trial court committed prejudicial error in admitting the testimony of Lieutenant Daniel Qualls, a detective with the Alamance County Sheriff’s Department. The essence of defendant’s contention is that the officer was able to testify in a narrative fashion as to his interpretation of the events which occurred on the evening of 24 December 1977. By so doing, he was then able to fill in portions of the narrative which were crucial to the state’s case but which had not been testified to by any of the state’s witnesses. Defendant therefore concludes that…