State v. Hampton

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant contends that the trial judge committed prejudicial error by permitting the witness Davis to testify as to what he told the police. The witness was asked, “What did you tell the officers?” He replied, “I told them what Joe had told me to tell them, that Cleveland Wilson had took us to Greystone and left us.” Defendant contends that this is hearsay evidence. We disagree.

In 1 Stansbury’s North Carolina Evidence, Section 138, pp. 459-460 (Brandis Rev. 1973), it. is stated:. . . [W]henever the assertion of any person, other than that of the witness himself in his present…