State v. Cheek

EXUM, Justice.

Defendant’s assignments of error relate to the trial court’s failure to dismiss the charge against him on the ground that the indictment was fatally defective, the denial of his motion to suppress his pretrial confession, the court’s summarization of the evidence for the jury, and the court’s rulings on various eviden-tiary questions. We find no reversible error in the trial; therefore, we affirm the conviction.

The state’s evidence at trial tended to show the following:

On 30 April 1981 Kathy Namath, the chief prosecution witness, was taking a midday nap in her home outside…