State v. Roberson

'Winborne, J.

The determinative assignment of error on this appeal is based upon defendant’s exception to denial of his motion for judgment as of nonsuit. The exception is well taken.

While it is a general rule of law, adopted in this State, that any person of ordinary intelligence, who has had an opportunity for observation, is competent to testify as to the rate of speed of a moving object, such as an automobile, Hicks v. Love, 201 N.C. 773, 161 S.E. 394; Jones v. Bagwell, 207 N.C. 378, 177 S.E. 170; Tyndall v. Hines Co., 226 N.C. 620, 39 S.E. 2d 828; Brafford v. Cook, 232 N.C. 699, 62 S.E.…