State v. Moore

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

By his first assignment of error, defendant contends that the trial court improperly admitted into evidence the knife seized from his bedroom pursuant to an allegedly invalid third party consent search. At trial, defendant contested the identity and therefore the authority of the woman who allowed the search. He argues on appeal that the trial court’s findings of fact that his mother consented to the search are not supported by competent evidence.

On direct examination prior to the voir dire hearing conducted to determine the admissibility of the knife, Deputy Sheriff…