State v. Loren

BRITT, Justice.

By his first assignment of error, defendant contends the trial court committed prejudicial error in permitting a police officer to testify that defendant “was acting like he was trying to hide something”. This assignment has no merit.

The challenged testimony was offered by Deputy Sheriff Hank Whitmire. He testified that he was on duty during the early morning hours of 6 May 1980; that after a warrant was issued for defendant’s arrest, he passed a car which he recognized as defendant’s car; that after some difficulty, he succeeded in getting defendant’s car to stop; that he…