State v. Harris

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant, in lieu of assignment of error in regular form, states that he “is unable to find reversible error in the trial proceedings” and requests this Court, in the exercise of its supervisory power, to examine the record and determine if error does exist.

Ordinarily, when there is no assignment of error, the judgment of the trial court must be sustained unless error appears upon the face of the record. State v. Higgs, 270 N.C. 111, 153 S.E. 2d 781; State v. Williams, 268 N.C. 295, 150 S.E. 2d 447.

Defendant excepted to the trial judge’s findings of fact and conclusions of…