State v. Thornton

CAMPBELL, Judge.

At the beginning of trial the defendant stipulated that (1) State’s Exhibit #1 was a laboratory report from a Mr. Neal C. Evans of the State Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory; (2) that one of the three glassine bags given Evans by J. C. Fuller, a Durham police officer, was tested by Evans in the laboratory; and (3) that if Evans were called to testify, he would testify that the glassine bag contained heroin.

The trial court, in the charge, reviewed the sequence of events by stating that the State’s witness, Thompson, told defendant “ . . . that he would like to buy three…