State v. . Hardy

The exceptions and assignments of error by defendants as to the prior searches of defendants’ premises cannot be sustained.

In S. v. Murphy, 84 N. C., 742 (743-4), it is said: “It is a fundamental principle of law that evidence of one offense cannot be given in evidence against a defendant to prove that he was guilty of another. We have been unable to find any exception to this well established rule; except in those cases where evidence of independent offenses have been admitted to explain or illustrate the facts upon which certain indictments are founded, as where, in the investigation of an…