State v. Morrison

WELLS, Judge.

In his first assignment of error, defendant contends that the trial court’s findings of fact pursuant to defendant’s motion to suppress evidence are unsupported by the testimony on voir dire. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1A-1, Rule 28(b)(5) of the N.C. Rules of Appellate Procedure states that “the body of the argument shall contain citations of authority upon which the appellant relies.” Since defendant failed to cite authority in support of his argument, we deem this assignment of error to be abandoned. See Groves & Sons v. State, 50 N.C. App. 1, 273 S.E. 2d 465 (1980), cert, denied, 302…